Wang, Liangshan
Yang, Feng
Wang, Xiaomeng
Xie, Haixiu
Fan, Eddy
Ogino, Mark
Brodie, Daniel
Wang, Hong
Hou, Xiaotong
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1301001, to X Hou)
Article History
Received: 5 September 2018
Accepted: 2 January 2019
First Online: 11 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee/review board of the Beijing Anzhen Hospital. Informed consent for demographic, physiological and hospital-outcome data analyses was not obtained because this observational study did not modify existing diagnostic or therapeutic strategies. However, patients and/or relatives were informed about the anonymous data collection and that they could decline inclusion.
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