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"Declarations Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Ethics approval and consent to participateAll research involving human participants reported in the present randomized controlled trial was performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the ethical and biomedical research committee at Fundación Valle del Lili University Hospital. Consent for publicationWritten informed consent was obtained from patients or another surrogate decision-maker before any trial-related activities. The informed consent process was approved by the ethical and biomedical research committee at Fundación Valle del Lili University Hospital. Competing interestThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests. Competing interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."

"Trial registration The trial protocol was registered in clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT02542241)."