Park, Shin Hyeong
Kim, Bum Jun
Kim, Ji Hye
Kim, Seung Chan
Kim, Rock Bum
Han, Yong Seop
Article History
Received: 10 August 2023
Accepted: 14 March 2024
First Online: 22 March 2024
Declarations
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: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Gyeongsang National University, Changwon Hospital (approval no. GNUCH 2021-08-004) and was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. The requirement for written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Gyeongsang National University, Changwon Hospital (approval no. GNUCH 2021-08-004) because this study analyzed secondary data from the Korea national health claim database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment (HIRA) service.
: Not applicable. Because this study analyzed secondary data from the Korea national health claim database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment (HIRA) service. The dataset did not include personal information such as patient name, social security number, address, or phone number. Only non-identifiable publicly available aggregate results were released for public research.
: The authors declare no competing interests.