Salami, Ali http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3343-4035
Fakih, Hadi
Chakkour, Mohamed
Salloum, Lamis
Bahmad, Hisham F.
Ghssein, Ghassan
Article History
Received: 11 February 2019
Accepted: 12 April 2019
First Online: 30 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study with all its experimental protocols was conducted under the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of the Lebanese University (LU) and the Ethics Committee of the healthcare centers. Ethical clearance was taken as per the norms and in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations of the LU and the tertiary healthcare centers included. Recruitment was done randomly after obtaining a written informed consent from the patients care givers. In accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, parents of all patients enrolled in this cross-sectional clinical study provided written informed consents for participation.
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