Zhang, Weiming
Mei, Changlin
Chen, Nan
Ding, Xiaoqiang
Ni, Zhaohui
Hao, Chuanming
Zhang, Jinghong
Zhang, Jinyuan
Wang, Niansong
Jiang, Gengru
Guo, Zhiyong
Yu, Chen
Deng, Yueyi
Li, Haiming
Yao, Qiang
Marshall, Mark R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0499-4527
Wolley, Martin J.
Qian, Jiaqi
Article History
Received: 19 June 2018
Accepted: 17 January 2019
First Online: 1 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Ethics Committee (IRB00009803, ExternalRef removed) of the Shanghai Clinical Research Center (IORG0008177, ExternalRef removed) reviewed and approved the design and execution of our study (Submission Number2018-08-01) (ExternalRef removed). The committee waived the need for individual consent to participate on the basis of the research being a retrospective observational study with unidentified data.
: The requirement for individual consent to publish was waived by the reviewing ethics committee, under the framework of retrospective audit of clinical records. All data in the study are de-identified, and none of the authors of the manuscript had access to any information that could be used to identify individual participants or their treating center during or after data collection.
: Haiming Li and Qiang Yao are fulltime employees of Baxter Healthcare (China) Ltd. Mark R Marshall is a fulltime employee of Baxter Healthcare (Asia-Pacific) Ltd., a part-time employee of University of Auckland (New Zealand) as an adjunct Associate Professor, and a part-time employee of Counties Manukau Health (New Zealand) as a clinical nephrologist. No other researcher has any potential conflicts of interest to declare.
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