Liu, Huaqing
Su, Dongni
Guo, Xubei
Dai, Yunhong
Dong, Xingqiang
Zhu, Qiujiao
Bai, Zhenjiang
Li, Ying
Wu, Shuiyan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8963-5082
Funding for this research was provided by:
Suzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (SYS 201757)
Natural Science Fund for colleges and universities of Jiangsu Province (18KJB320022)
Article History
Received: 7 January 2020
Accepted: 5 August 2020
First Online: 12 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Children’s Hospital of Soochow University and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants were enrolled following written informed consent given by their parents and the permission to access patient data was obtained from the health facility. Data on the condition of the child and the withdrawn treatment were collected from the informed consent form and the doctor-patient records. These documents also recorded the guardian’s self-reported reason for abandoning the child’s treatment since 2011. The use of this data was approved by the ethics committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.