Tanner, Michael C.
Heller, Raban
Westhauser, Fabian
Miska, Matthias
Ferbert, Thomas
Fischer, Christian
Gantz, Simone
Schmidmaier, Gerhard
Haubruck, Patrick http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7045-0387
Funding for this research was provided by:
BonAlive (Industry Funding)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2018
Accepted: 10 May 2018
First Online: 30 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained by the Ethics Committee of the University of Heidelberg Medical Faculty prior to the beginning of the study (Ethikkommission I der Medizinischen Fakultät Heidelberg, S-472/2017). This trial was registered with the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS) in Freiburg, a primary registry within the WHO Registry Network, Germany, on 22 January 2018 with the trial registration number DRKS00013882. The CONSORT extension for non-pharmacological interventions and the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) Checklist for the implementation of study protocols were followed (Fig. InternalRef removedand Additional file InternalRef removed) [CitationRef removed,CitationRef removed]. Written informed consent will be obtained from each patient. In the event that a patient’s physical or mental health becomes jeopardized because of participation in the present study, the patient will be dismissed immediately and excluded from the study. All protocol modifications will be registered with the DRKS, published in the final paper and communicated to the participants.Figure removed
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.