Crossmark

Clinical analysis of microbiologically proven fungal keratitis according to prior topical steroid use: a retrospective study in South Korea

Published Online: 2019-10-16

Published Print: 2019-12

Authors

Cho, Chan-Ho

Lee, Sang-Bumm https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0993-3929
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Yeungnam University (2018 Yeungnam Univeristy Research Grant)
License Information

Text and Data Mining valid from 2019-10-16

Version of Record valid from 2019-10-16
More Information

Article History

Received: 24 January 2019

Accepted: 10 September 2019

First Online: 16 October 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Yeungnam University Hospital, South Korea (file no. YUMC 2018–11-015), and complied with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Institutional Review Board of our institution allowed us “waiver of informed consent” because it is determined that obtaining consent from a human subject of research is impracticable in the course of research and the risk to a human subject of research is very low even if the project is exempted from consent, as per the Bioethics and Safety Act of the Republic of Korea (Chapter 3, Article 16, Paragraph 3, Act No. 14839. Enforcement Date 26. July 2017.).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Document is current