Ohbe, Hiroyuki
Kudo, Daisuke
Kimura, Yuya
Matsui, Hiroki
Yasunaga, Hideo
Kushimoto, Shigeki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (23AA2003)
Article History
Received: 1 November 2024
Accepted: 14 January 2025
First Online: 20 January 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of The University of Tokyo (approval number: 3501–5; approval date: May 19, 2021). The study procedures were conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. No information permitting the identification of individual patients, hospitals, or physicians was obtained; hence, the requirement for informed consent was waived because of the anonymous nature of the data.
: Not applicable.
: The dataset analyzed in the current study is not publicly available because of contracts with the hospitals that provided the data to the database.
: The authors declare no competing interests.