Wu, Guangjie
Gong, Shiwei
Cai, Hongbing
Ding, Yufeng
Article History
Received: 22 May 2018
Accepted: 18 December 2018
First Online: 29 December 2018
Competing interest
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All the selected hospitals agreed to participate in the study, and a written informed consent form was signed by E-mail before data collection which was approved by the group involved in ethics or other permissions in each surveyed hospital. The ethics committee of the University of Science and Technology (HUST) ruled that no formal ethics approval was required in this case, as no human subjects or other animals were involved in the study complying with the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (Additional file InternalRef removed), as well as the open policy for data of medicine prices.
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