Contributors
Hiromu Naraba:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5663-2213
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – original draft
Tadahiro Goto: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review &
editing
Toru Shirakawa: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Tomohiro Sonoo: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Naoki Kanda: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Hidehiko Nakano: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Yuji Takahashi: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Hideki Hashimoto: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Kensuke Nakamura: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Tatsuo Shimosawa: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
27
May
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0252158
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hitachi General Hospital, Hitachi,
Ibaraki, Japan
[2
]
TXP Medical Co., Ltd., Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
[3
]
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health,
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
[4
]
Department of Social Medicine, Public Health, Osaka University Graduate School Medicine,
Suita, Osaka, Japan
International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine, JAPAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: Although one or more of the authors are employed by a commercial company: TXP Medical
Co., Ltd., all authors have declared that no competing interests exist related to
the current manuscript. Dr. Sonoo is the CEO of TXP Medical Co., Ltd. and receives
an executive salary. Dr. Naraba, Dr. Shirakawa, and Dr. Goto are members of the research
team of TXP Medical Co., Ltd. and receive salary income, but they have no direct interest
in the contents of this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies
on sharing data and materials.
‡ TS, NK, HN, YT, HH and KN also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-20-39742
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252158
PMC ID: 8158903
PubMed ID: 34043681
SO-VID: 6c774ea2-d576-49b7-82f8-ac0f97c273d4
Copyright © © 2021 Naraba et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 18
December
2020
Date
accepted
: 11
May
2021
Page count
Figures: 3,
Tables: 3,
Pages: 14
Funding
The funder, TXP Medical, was not involved in the study design, data analysis, publication
decisions, or manuscript preparation and provided support only in the form of authors'
salaries and research materials. This study was not conducted in partnership with
a commercial organization.
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