Nakada, Yoshinobu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-4544
Arai, Makoto
Article History
Received: 5 October 2017
Accepted: 31 October 2018
First Online: 8 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This survey was approved by the Institutional Review Board for Clinical Research of Tokai University School of Medicine (15R-058) and conformed to the principles of the Helsinki Declaration.All the responders gave written informed consent to participate in this study.
: Our purpose to report the outcomes of this survey in a scientific journal was written in the study objectives in Japanese and distributed to all of the subjects. Written informed consent from all the responders was obtained to participate in this study, which was also understood by them as consent for its publication.
: The Department of Kampo Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, received a grant from Tsumura, a Japanese manufacturer of Kampo medicine; however, the authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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