Suzuki, Atsushi
Ando, Masahiko
Kimura, Tomoki
Kataoka, Kensuke
Yokoyama, Toshiki
Shiroshita, Eiichi
Kondoh, Yasuhiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pacific Medico Co., Ltd. (N/A)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2019
Accepted: 19 February 2020
First Online: 24 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was carried out in accord with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Tosei General Hospital Institutional Review Board (IRB No. 554). The trial was registered in the university hospital medical information network Clinical Trial Registry (UMIN-CTR) (UMIN000021901). All participants provided written informed consent before participation.
: Not applicable.
: TK, KK, YK report lecture fees from Teijin Pharma Limited, Fukuda Denshi Co., Ltd., and Philips Respironics GK. outside the submitted work. TY reports lecture fees from Teijin Pharma Limited, Philips Respironics GK., and Koike Medical CO., Ltd. outside the submitted work. ES is an employee of Pacific Medico Co., Ltd. Other authors have no conflicts of interest to report.