Liu, Rui
Liu, Ningyuan
Suo, Shanlian
Yang, Qinfeng
Deng, Zhen
Fu, Wei
Wang, Min
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (20JR10RA730, 20JR10RA730)
Article History
Received: 29 December 2023
Accepted: 3 May 2024
First Online: 14 May 2024
Declarations
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: Not applicable. Administrative permissions were required to access the raw data used in this study and the corresponding author’s (Zhen Deng) work unit (The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China.) has already granted permission from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to access Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Databases. However, this observational study used deidentifed publicly available data, hence there was no requirement for consent to participate and it was deemed exempt by the ethics committee. So there is no need to grant permission in the Ethics approval and consent to participate section. What is more, the data used in this study were no need anonymized before its use. All methods are carried out following relevant guidelines and regulations. The data used in this study were not need anonymized before its use.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.