Sakamoto, Haruka http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9003-7402
Lee, Sangnim
Ishizuka, Aya
Hinoshita, Eiji
Hori, Hiroyuki
Ishibashi, Nanao
Komada, Kenichi
Norizuki, Masataro
Katsuma, Yasushi
Akashi, Hidechika
Shibuya, Kenji
Article History
Received: 2 August 2018
Accepted: 7 January 2019
First Online: 16 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable. As our research took on a style of an expert meeting where.- we did not collect any personal information- we only asked about the situation of tuberculosis control in general and did not ask any of personal health information- we did not perform any intervention to the participants- we discussed about the general situation of tuberculosis control and participant did not feel any mental or emotional stress during the meeting.Based on the criterion set by the national guideline, we have determined that our study will not need any ethical approval. In addition, none of the related studies that utilized the same framework proposed by Jeremy Shiffman mentioned ethical approval in their studies. We therefore have concluded that ethical review is not necessary for our study either.
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