Aoyama, Yuki
Inaba, Tomoki
Takahashi, Sakuma http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8533-3549
Yasuhara, Hisae
Hiraoka, Sakiko
Morimoto, Takeshi
Colvin, Hugh Shunsuke
Wato, Masaki
Ando, Midori
Nakamura, Satoko
Mizobuchi, Koichi
Okada, Hiroyuki
Article History
Received: 3 January 2021
Accepted: 13 August 2021
First Online: 23 August 2021
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital (No. 861) and the Ethics Committee of Mitoyo General Hospital (No. 19CR01-101). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Administrative permissions were not required to access the raw data of this study. The Ethics Committee of Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital and the Ethics Committee of Mitoyo General Hospital permit an opt-out method for the agreement of the patients to participate in the study. The requirement for written informed consent to participate in the study was replaced by an opt-out method, owing to the retrospective nature of this study.
: The requirement for written informed consent was replaced by an opt-out method owing to the retrospective nature of this study.
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.