Cabral, Luís http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6820-5251
Afreixo, Vera
Meireles, Rita
Vaz, Miguel
Marques, Margarida
Tourais, Isabel
Chaves, Catarina
Almeida, Luís
Paiva, José Artur
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidade de Coimbra
Article History
Received: 8 April 2018
Accepted: 24 August 2018
First Online: 5 September 2018
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: This study has got the formal approval from the Ethics Committee of Coimbra University Hospital Centre (CHUC) to its realization. The Ethics Committee of Coimbra University Hospital Centre (CHUC) also waived the need for informed consent according to Declaration of Helsinki and CIOMS International Ethics Guidelines because this study was a retrospective observational study of patients from an anonymized dataset that only involved recording data from medical records.
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