Current practice and barriers in the implementation of ultrasound-based assessment of muscle mass in Japan: A nationwide, web-based cross-sectional study

• Keishi Nawata ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keishi Nawata, Nobuto Nakanishi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahata-nishi, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8174-2820

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• Nobuto Nakanishi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keishi Nawata, Nobuto Nakanishi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nobuto_nakanishi@yahoo.co.jp

  Affiliation Division of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Chuo-ward, Kobe, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-2688

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• Shigeaki Inoue,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Chuo-ward, Kobe, Japan

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• Keibun Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Critical Care Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland and The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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• Masafumi Nozoe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Konan Women’s University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan

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• Yuko Ono,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Chuo-ward, Kobe, Japan

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• Isamu Yamada,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Chuo-ward, Kobe, Japan

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• Hajime Katsukawa,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Scientific Research, Japanese Society for Early Mobilization, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Joji Kotani

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Chuo-ward, Kobe, Japan

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