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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis is a retrospective, data mining study based on recorded data from the hospital management system. As a result, a written consent was not obtained from the participants. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Kowloon Central and Kowloon East Cluster Research and Ethics Committee, Hospital Authority (Ref.: KC/KE-19-0057/ER-4). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper. Competing interests The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper."

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