Masadah, Rina
Maulana, Aries
Nelwan, Berti Julian
Ghaznawie, Mahmud
Miskad, Upik Anderiani
Tawali, Suryani
Rauf, Syahrul
Herman, Bumi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Second Century Fund Chulalongkorn University (1918/2563)
Article History
Received: 5 August 2023
Accepted: 16 November 2023
First Online: 27 November 2023
Declarations
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: This study is part of clinical trials registered with number NCT05697601 with the number of Institutional Review Board (IRB) Full Board of Faculty of Medicine Hasanuddin University approval number 800/UN4.6.4.5.31/PP36/2022. Patients were not purposively recruited for the research but for diagnosis and treatment. However, the patients acknowledged that the use of biological samples taken for pathology assessment would be used for research purposes and written consent was given by the individual at the beginning of patient admission. The procedure that was performed in this study did not affect the patients directly, and should the diagnostic finding require immediate care, referral for treatment would be performed accordingly. All data used in this study was anonymized / de-identified to ensure the confidentiality of the information.
: As the data was part of a routine medical procedure, the hospital also gave consent in a statement as follows, “As our hospital is one of the centres for medical education, in certain parts of your care, there will be an involvement of students who are equipped with sufficient clinical knowledge to observe and perform medical procedures and further examination when deemed necessary. Moreover, our hospital also serves as a clinical research unit that will employ and utilise the data stored in the medical record for medical training and research. This is in line with the Health Ministerial Regulation number 269 year 2008 regarding medical records…”. The aforementioned IRB also granted the waiver for additional informed consent following the regulation by the Ministry of Health.
: Not applicable.
: One author (BH) received funding from The Second Century Fund Chulalongkorn University Thailand for work on the research topic falling under Medicine and Public Health Topic for the Thai Society. No conflict of interest exists for the remaining authors.