Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Catharina G. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-5379
van den Heuvel, Edwin R.
Krabbe, Paul F. M.
Article History
Received: 3 April 2017
Accepted: 6 June 2018
First Online: 22 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The data collection under cancer and RA patients was approved by the Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (region Arnhem-Nijmegen), the Medical Ethics Review Committee Twente (METC/14124), and the Medical Ethics Review Committee UMCG (METC 2015/496). They issued a waiver for this study, indicating that the pertinent Dutch Legislation (the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act) did not apply for this non-interventional study. Formal informed consent was therefore not mandatory. After sending an information letter about the study and the research task, consent to participate was obtained from all patients by a research nurse. Consent to participate was given verbally.
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