Effectiveness of early colonoscopy in patients with colonic diverticular hemorrhage: A single-center retrospective cohort study
Chikamasa Ichita, Sayuri Shimizu, Akiko Sasaki, Chihiro Sumida, Takashi Nishino, Karen Kimura
Chikamasa Ichita, Akiko Sasaki, Chihiro Sumida, Takashi Nishino, Karen Kimura, Department of Gastroenterology Medicine Center, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura 247-8533, Kanagawa, Japan
Chikamasa Ichita, Sayuri Shimizu, Department of Health Data Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 236-0027, Kanagawa, Japan
Author contributions: Ichita C, Shimizu S, Sasaki A, Sumida C, Nishino T, and Kimura K contributed equally to this work; Ichita C contributed to the planning, data gathering, literature review, writing and editing of this article; Shimizu S provided epidemiological advice and reviewed for statistical analysis; Sasaki A, Sumida C, Nishino T, and Kimura K provided professional suggestions in the conduct of the study; all authors commented on draft versions and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board of the Future Medical Research Center Ethical Committee (IRB No. TGE01304-024).
Informed consent statement: Due to the observational study based on medical records without using samples taken from the human body, informed consent was obtained from all participants through the opt-out method on our hospital website.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors have no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of this article.
Data sharing statement: The original anonymous dataset is available on request from the corresponding author at ichikamasa@yahoo.co.jp.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Chikamasa Ichita, MD, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology Medicine Center, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, 1370-1, Okamoto, Kamakura 247-8533, Kanagawa, Japan. ichikamasa@yahoo.co.jp
Received: October 11, 2022
Peer-review started: October 11, 2022
First decision: October 26, 2022
Revised: November 1, 2022
Accepted: November 22, 2022
Article in press: November 22, 2022
Published online: December 16, 2022
