Arndt, S.
Wesarg, T.
Stelzig, Y.
Jacob, R.
Illg, A.
Lesinski-Schiedat, A.
Ketterer, M. C.
Aschendorff, A.
Speck, I.
Article History
First Online: 8 November 2019
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: S. Arndt reports the following: Advanced Bionics: travel cost reimbursement, financial support for research; Cochlear: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; MED-EL: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; Oticon Medical: travel cost reimbursement. T. Wesarg reports the following: Advanced Bionics: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; Cochlear: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; MED-EL: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; Phonak Communications: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; Oticon Medical: travel cost reimbursement. A. Aschendorff reports the following: Advanced Bionics: financial support for research, Medical Advisory Board, travel cost reimbursement; Cochlear: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; MED-EL: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement; Oticon Medical: financial support for research, travel cost reimbursement. Y. Stelzig, R. Jacob, A. Illg, A. Lesinski-Schiedat, M.C. Ketterer and I. Speck declare that they have no competing interests.
: The present study was performed with approval of the Ethics Commission Freiburg (No. 381/18) for the Universitätsklinikum Freiburg and Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Koblenz and the Ethics Commission Hannover (No. 1897-2013) for the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover in compliance with national law and the Declaration of Helsinki of 2013 (in the current, revised edition) (DRKS00015740).
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