Pourshirazi, Maryam
Heidarzadeh, Mohammad
Taheri, Mahshid
Esmaily, Habibollah
Babaey, Farah
Talkhi, Nasrin
Gholizadeh, Leila
Article History
Received: 9 August 2021
Accepted: 25 February 2022
First Online: 8 March 2022
Declarations
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: The data used in this study were anonymized before its use. The IMaN registry database is available at ExternalRef removed and is closed to public access. MP, MH, MT, and FB are affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Their access to the government database is provided through an assigned username and password. Dr. Mohammad Heidarzadeh is the corresponding author and director of the Neonatal Health Office at Iran’s Ministry of Health and Education, responsible for developing the IMaN registry database and analyzing the national maternal and neonatal data using the QlikView platform. This study was a sub-analysis of data from the IMaN national registry and was approved by the ethics committee of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (IR.MUMS.REC.1399.589). The informed consent was not applicable in this study due to secondary use of routinely collected clinical administrative health information in the national registry database.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.