Jia, Min
An, Bang
Yan, Bin
Ma, Qingyan
Wen, Binglong
Zhao, Shanshan
Gao, Chengge
Ma, Xiancang
Zhang, Lili
Li, Bin
Zhang, Ping
Wang, Jian
Yu, Hong
Wang, Wei
Article History
Received: 12 August 2022
Accepted: 27 December 2022
First Online: 3 January 2023
Declarations
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: All the procedures implemented in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional and/or National Research Ethics Committee and the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committees of the three participanting hospitals (The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xianyang Central Hospital and Erie County Medical Center). Because of the retrospective nature of this study, patient informed consent for inclusion was waived by the institutional review board of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiao Tong University, and the need for written informed consent was waived by the same committee that approved this study’s protocol.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.