Izadi, Reyhane
Habibolahi, Abbas
Jahanmehr, Nader
Khodakarim, Soheila
Article History
Received: 23 August 2022
Accepted: 27 April 2023
First Online: 20 May 2023
Declarations
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: This study is registered under the ethic approval code ?IR.TUMS.MEDICINE.REC.1399.516? on 2020-09-22 by ethics committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (because it is one of the first-level university centers in Iran to review and confirm the scientific and ethical validity of studies, and also this center as a party to the contract of the institution that commissioned this research), and all the methods adopted in the present study were in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The data of this research was not collected from human participants, it was collected from the data registered in the confidential information system of the Ministry of Health of Iran (IMAN Net) and with the official permission from the Neonatal Health Department of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran. Since this was a non-interventional study, the Neonatal Health Department of the Ministry of Health and the ethics committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences both waived the need for informed consent to access information. The relevant link of the research ethics code is available below: ExternalRef removed
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.