Han, Sangbin
Park, Jaesik
Hong, Sang Hyun
Lim, Soojin
Park, Yong Hyun
Chae, Min Suk http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1426-4651
Article History
Received: 24 August 2020
Accepted: 16 October 2020
First Online: 28 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This single-centre, prospective randomized controlled study was conducted at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital (approval number: KC19MESI0573) on October 7, 2019. The trial was performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki. The protocol was prospectively registered at a publicly accessible clinical trial database recognized by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Clinical Research Information Service, Republic of Korea; approval number: KCT0004351) on October 18, 2019. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients registered in the trial between October 2019 and June 2020. Our study complies with the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines (CONSORT Checklist); a CONSORT flow chart is presented in Fig. InternalRef removed. The summary of our study protocol is presented in Supplemental file InternalRef removed.
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: No author has any conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.