Practice guidelines on endoscopic surgery for qualified surgeons by the endoscopic surgical skill qualification system: Stomach

Dr. Noriyuki Inaki, Dr. Kazutaka Obama, Dr. Koichi Suda, Dr. Masanori Tokunaga, and Dr. Takeshi Naitoh are the Editorial Board members of ASES Journal and the co-authors of this article. To minimize bias, they were excluded from all editorial decision-making related to the acceptance of this article for publication. Ichiro Uyama has conflicts of interest with Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Medicaroid, Inc., Taiho Pharmaceutical, Medtronic, Chugai Pharmaceutical, and Asahi Intec. Koichi Suda has conflicts of interest with Medicaroid, Ono, Yakult, Taiho Pharmaceutical, and Chugai Pharmaceutical. Noriyuki Inaki has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, and Nition. Takashi Oshiro has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, and Medtronic. Kazutaka Obama has conflicts of interest with Medtronic, and Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Kazunori Kasama has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, and Medtronic. Takahiro Kinoshita has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, and Olympus. Yukinori Kurokawa has conflicts of interest with Medtronic, Johnson and Johnson, and Taiho Pharmaceutical. Kazuyuki Kojima has conflicts of interest with Medtronic, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Johnson and Johnson, Ono Pharmaceutical, and Terumo Corp. Shuji Takiguchi has conflicts of interest with Medtronic, Johnson and Johnson, Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Johnson and Johnson, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Ono Pharmaceutical, SBI Pharma, and Eli Lilly Japan. Masanori Tokunaga has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, RiverField, Ono Pharmaceutical, and Daiichi-Sankyo. Takeshi Naitoh has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Sumitomo Bakelite, and Medtronic. Souya Nunobe has conflicts of interest with Johnson and Johnson, and Medtronic. Tetsu Fukunaga has conflicts of interest with to Taiho Pharmaceutical, Medtronic, Johnson and Johnson, and Abbvie. Susumu Shibasaki, Kazuhisa Ehara, Hiroshi Okabe, Norio Shiraishi, Eishi Nagai, Masahiko Nishizaki, Kei Hosoda, Takeshi Sano, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Koji Shindo, Masatoshi Nakagawa, and Takahiro Hiratsuka have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Data available on request from the authors. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.