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Lefering, Rolf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0141-1747
Imach, Sebastian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8879-9050
Bieler, Dan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-1259
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH
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Article History
Received: 16 March 2026
Accepted: 22 May 2026
First Online: 8 June 2026
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: Patients included in the TraumaRegister DGU gave their written consent to use their routine data for the purpose of quality control and scientific analyses. For a certain scientific analysis using registry data no separate ethics vote was required, as stated by the Ethics Committee of the University Witten/Herdecke (No. 64/2018).
: RL declares that he receives an ongoing financial support from Akedamie der Unfallchirurgie (AUC GmbH) who is owner of the TraumaRegister DGU data; this service agreement includes statistical support with data analysis. SI and DB declare that they have no competing interests.
