Imai, Shinobu
Inoue, Norihiko
Nagai, Hideaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shionogi,Japan
Article History
Received: 4 April 2022
Accepted: 17 June 2022
First Online: 29 June 2022
Declarations
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: This study conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the NHO Headquarters [R2-0827006]. Due to the retrospective and noninvasive nature of the study with anonymized data, the need for informed consent was waived by the approval of the Institutional Review Board of the NHO Headquarters, according to the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects, established by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, in Japan.
: S.I., N.I., and H.N. are employees of the National Hospital Organization, which received joint research fees from Shionogi & Co., Ltd. The authors report no other competing interest in this work.