Tetzlaff, Juliane
Epping, Jelena
Sperlich, Stefanie
Eberhard, Sveja
Stahmeyer, Jona Theodor
Geyer, Siegfried
Funding for this research was provided by:
AOK Niedersachsen
Article History
Received: 2 February 2018
Accepted: 3 July 2018
First Online: 16 July 2018
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: Our study is based on claims data, i.e., on routinely collected data. The use of this sort of data for scientific purposes is regulated by federal law, and the data protection officer of the Statutory Local Health Insurance of Lower Saxony (AOK Niedersachsen) has approved its use.
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