Shin, Jung-ho
Mizuno, Seiko
Okuno, Takuya
Itoshima, Hisashi
Sasaki, Noriko
Kunisawa, Susumu
Kaku, Mitsuo
Yoshida, Makiko
Gu, Yoshiaki
Morii, Daiichi
Shibayama, Keigo
Ohmagari, Norio
Imanaka, Yuichi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4613-2159
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H27-shinkogyosei-shitei-005, H29-shinkogyosei-shitei-005, 20HA2003)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16H02634, JP19H01075)
Article History
Received: 14 May 2020
Accepted: 18 February 2021
First Online: 27 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects of the MHLW, Japan. The Ethics Committee, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University has approved this study (approval number: R0849). The Ethics Committee has also approved that consent is not applicable for the study. Patients’ information was anonymized prior to analysis. No additional permission was needed from each hospital to post the questionnaire.
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