Lin, Li
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Zhu, Yuchun
Li, Boya
Yang, Huixia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81490745)
State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (2015CB943300)
Article History
Received: 20 May 2018
Accepted: 8 October 2018
First Online: 6 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Peking University First Hospital (reference number 2016 [1109]). Verbal and written information regarding informed consent will be presented to the caregivers and/or patients. Any modifications to the protocol that may affect the conduct of the study will be presented to the committee. The trial was registered with ClinicaTrials.gov (NCT02797249) prior to the inclusion of the first patient. All important changes to the protocol will be implemented in the trial registration. All participants will provide written informed content, and the ethics committee has approved the procedures. The full protocol will be available freely owing to the open access nature of the publication. The findings of this RCT will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts will be submitted to relevant national and international conferences. The standards delineated in the guidelines of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials will be followed in this RCT. All investigators will have access to the final trial dataset. We plan to communicate the trial results to the participants, healthcare professionals, policy makers, the funding agencies, the public and other relevant groups via conferences, publications and/or other data-sharing arrangements.
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