Kirchner, Heribert
Ullrich, Heiko
Neu, Peter
Hulsmans, Nik
Juckel, Georg
Brzoska, Patrick
Funding for this research was provided by:
Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH
Article History
Received: 13 June 2023
Accepted: 26 October 2023
First Online: 8 November 2023
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Scientific and Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Research Council of the University of Münster, Germany (No. 2019–529-f-S, Ethik-Kommission/Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe, Germany) and carried out in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. The need for consent to participate was waived by an Institutional Review Board (IRB/Ethik-Kommission/Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe, Germany). Our study group did not have any access to the personal data of the patients. We received the anonymous data without any personal information according to the German privacy policy", via email.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.