Oyamada, Shunsuke
Chiu, Shih-Wei
Yamaguchi, Takuhiro
Article History
Received: 20 October 2021
Accepted: 23 February 2022
First Online: 26 April 2022
Declarations
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: In the INSPIRED trial (actual example of our study), consent to run the trial was gained at the site, rather than individual resident, level given the impracticalities of gaining informed consent from a large population. This follows national guidelines for Australia from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Since our study is only an analysis based on simulations and pre-collected data, we did not obtain additional consent from the individual resident. For the INSPIRED trial group to provide us with the electronic data (anonymized) collected in the INSPIRED trial, we obtained the approval of the Ethics Review Committee of the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine for the study protocol. (Reception No.: 2020–1-1180) Our study follows Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Biological Research Involving Human Subjects (Japanese).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.