**Author details**

Izawa Junko1 , Yoshimi Okamoto-Uchida<sup>2</sup> , Akari Nishimura1 and Jun Hirayama1 \*

1 Department of Clinical Engineering, Faculty of Health Sciences, Komatsu University, Ishikawa, Japan

2 Division of Medicinal Safety Science, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

\*Address all correspondence to: jun.hirayama@komatsu-u.ac.jp

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