Urbanek, Christian
Gokel, Viola
Safer, Anton
Becher, Heiko
Grau, Armin J.
Buggle, Florian
Palm, Frederick
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GR1102/6-1)
Article History
Received: 9 December 2017
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 3 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All patients with stroke or TIA in the City of Ludwigshafen were asked for written informed consent. In all patients with informed consent follow-up investigations could have been performed by telephone 1, 3 and 12 months after stroke utilizing a standardized questionnaire. In patients without informed consent survival and death information was obtained by the population registration authority. LuSSt has been approved by the ethics committee of the Landesärztekammer Rhineland-Palatinate and by the data protection commissioner of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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