Liang, Zhanming
Xu, Min
Liu, Guowei
Zhou, Yongli
Howard, Peter F
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shandong Social Science Planning and Management Office
Article History
Received: 19 April 2020
Accepted: 29 October 2020
First Online: 10 December 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study received ethics approval from the Research Committees of Qianfoshan Hospital and LaiWu Hospital for conducting the study with their doctors and patients as described in the method section. The study also received ethics clearance from La Trobe University Ethics Committee. Special consideration was also given to patient involvement, only inviting inpatients after they have received their discharge notice. Neither survey collected personal and identifiable information to protect participants’ anonymity.Information on informed consent was included at the beginning of the paper-based questionnaire. Implied consent was obtained. All participants were asked that they would give full consent to the study by completing and returning the questionnaires. Participants were not required to sign on the consent section.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.