Shen, Yanfei http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6752-2829
Cai, Guolong
Gong, Shijin
Dong, Lei
Yan, Jing
Cai, Wanru
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81774220)
Zhejiang Province Health High-Level Talents and the Zhejiang Province Sepsis Innovation Project (N/A.)
Article History
Received: 17 January 2019
Accepted: 26 June 2019
First Online: 12 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This was a secondary analysis of a prospective RCT which was approved by the institutional review board at each study center, and informed consent was obtained from the patients or their surrogates. All the information was de-identified in the downloaded dataset. Thus, the ethical approval statement and the need for informed consent were waived for this manuscript.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.