Liu, Jay C. Jr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7205-3828
Ismael, Aieshah A.
Zaidi, Ayesha
Sha’ban, Ban W.
Almutawa, Shaikha Ebrahim
Chatha, Asad Amin
Abuzeyad, Feras H.
Jaafar, Ruqaya Isa
Alghanem, Salah Ali
Qassim, Ghada Al
Kumar, Nitya
Corbally, Martin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Article History
Received: 22 December 2020
Accepted: 12 May 2021
First Online: 5 July 2021
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was granted by the Research Ethics Committees (REC) at each of the three hospitals involved in the study, the King Hamad University Hospital REC, Salmaniya Ministry of Health REC, Bahrain Defence Force REC(#2018–248), as well as the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain REC. Consent was not deemed as applicable by the four local ethics committees, as the data was completely deidentified prior to analysis.
: Consent for publication is not applicable, as all data was deidentified by the research team prior to analysis.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.