Endo, Hideki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-0332
Uchino, Shigehiko
Hashimoto, Satoru
Aoki, Yoshitaka
Hashiba, Eiji
Hatakeyama, Junji
Hayakawa, Katsura
Ichihara, Nao
Irie, Hiromasa
Kawasaki, Tatsuya
Kumasawa, Junji
Kurosawa, Hiroshi
Nakamura, Tomoyuki
Ohbe, Hiroyuki
Okamoto, Hiroshi
Shigemitsu, Hidenobu
Tagami, Takashi
Takaki, Shunsuke
Takimoto, Kohei
Uchida, Masatoshi
Miyata, Hiroaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Article History
Received: 23 November 2020
Accepted: 26 January 2021
First Online: 15 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Tokyo (approval number: 2020242NI). Consent to participate was waived because of the anonymous nature of the data.
: Not applicable.
: HE, NI, and HM are affiliated with the Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment at the University of Tokyo. The department is a social collaboration department supported by grants from the National Clinical Database, Johnson & Johnson K.K., and Nipro Corporation. The other authors do not have any competing interests.