Mochida, Yasuhiro
Ohtake, Takayasu
Miyashita, Yusuke
Ishioka, Kunihiro
Oka, Machiko
Maesato, Kyoko
Moriya, Hidekazu
Hidaka, Sumi
Saito, Shigeru
Kobayashi, Shuzo
Article History
Received: 1 June 2017
Accepted: 12 January 2018
First Online: 14 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Tokushukai Group Institutional Review Board (approval number IRB no. TGE00532-024) and was conducted under the Declaration of Helsinki. This report adopted an opt-out consent instead of the written informed consent. We provided patients with information explaining the proposed research project (the purpose, required individual data, and duration of research) by means of an information sheet or a website of the hospital, and gave them the opportunity of opt-out.
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