Satoh, Kasumi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2182-3108
Nomura, Kyoko
Nakae, Hajime
Kudo, Daisuke
Kushimoto, Shigeki
Hasegawa, Masatsugu
Ito, Fumihito
Yamanouchi, Satoshi
Honda, Hiroyuki
Andoh, Kohkichi
Furukawa, Hajime
Yamada, Yasuo
Tsujimoto, Yuta
Okuyama, Manabu
Article History
Received: 30 November 2020
Accepted: 29 August 2021
First Online: 8 September 2021
Declarations
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: All data were retrieved from a database named Tohoku Sepsis Registry (University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry No. UMIN000010297). The Institutional Review Board of each institution approved the study. All Institutional Review Boards waived the need for informed consent due to the observational study design requiring no treatments beyond the daily clinical practice, according to the Japanese guideline (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan; Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects. March 2015).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.