Niikura, Ryota
Nagata, Naoyoshi
Yamada, Atsuo
Doyama, Hisashi
Shiratori, Yasutoshi
Nishida, Tsutomu
Kiyotoki, Shu
Yada, Tomoyuki
Fujita, Tomoki
Sumiyoshi, Tetsuya
Hasatani, Kenkei
Mikami, Tatsuya
Honda, Tetsuro
Mabe, Katsuhiro
Hara, Kazuo
Yamamoto, Katsumi
Takeda, Mariko
Takata, Munenori
Tanaka, Mototsugu
Shinozaki, Tomohiro
Fujishiro, Mitsuhiro
Koike, Kazuhiko
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Japanese Gastroenterological Association (2016-1)
Article History
Received: 9 October 2017
Accepted: 24 February 2018
First Online: 3 April 2018
Authors’ information
: See Additional file InternalRef removed: Appendix S4.
: The Institutional Review Boards of the University of Tokyo, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Toyonaka Municipal Hospital, Shuto General Hospital, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Kohnodai Hospital, Otaru Ekisaikai Hospital, Tonan Hospital, Fukui Prefectural Hospital, Hirosaki University Hospital, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center City Hospital, National Hospital Organization Hakodate Hospital, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, and Japan Community Healthcare Organization Osaka Hospital approved our trial. We will obtain informed consent from all participants in the study.
: The Principal Investigator will form a Publication Committee for this purpose, which will include key members of the Trial Steering Committee, and the Committee will grant authorship according to individual input according to the Vancouver Protocol of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Investigators who do not qualify for authorship will be acknowledged by name in the final manuscript.
: M. Fujishiro has received lecture honoraria from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., AstraZeneka Pharmaceuticals, Zeria Pharmaceutical Co., and Daiichi-Sankyo Co., research grants for unrestricted purpose from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and EA Pharma Co., and collaborative funding from HOYA-Pentax Co. The other authors declare no competing interests.
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