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Authors
Suo, Shanlian
Liu, Rui
Yu, Xuegao
Wang, Jian
Wang, Min
Zhang, Yan
Liu, Yuqian
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (23JRRA1633)
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Article History
Received: 19 January 2024
Accepted: 24 October 2024
First Online: 29 October 2024
Declarations
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: Not applicable. Administrative permissions were required to access the raw data used in this study and the author’s (Jian Wang) work unit (Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China.) has already granted permission from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to access Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Databases. However, this observational study used deidentifed publicly available data, hence there was no requirement for consent to participate and it was deemed exempt by the ethics committee. So there is no need to grant permission in the Ethics approval and consent to participate section. What is more, the data used in this study were no need anonymized before its use. All methods are carried out following relevant guidelines and regulations.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
