Ohbe, Hiroyuki
Hashimoto, Satoru
Ogura, Takayuki
Nishikimi, Mitsuaki
Kudo, Daisuke
Shime, Nobuaki
Kushimoto, Shigeki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9232-5782
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP22fk0108654)
Article History
Received: 17 November 2023
Accepted: 18 January 2024
First Online: 30 January 2024
Declarations
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: The research plan to collect data from nationwide ICUs and use them for the analysis of Japanese epidemiological data was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of Hiroshima University (approval number: E-1965). As only publicly available data were used in this study, the need for institutional review board approval and patient consent at each institution was waived. The ethics committees of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, and Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine agreed to this waiver.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.