Holzinger, Dirk
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Foell, Dirk
Horneff, Gerd
Foeldvari, Ivan
Tzaribachev, Nikolay
Tzaribachev, Catrin
Minden, Kirsten
Kallinich, Tilmann
Ganser, Gerd
Clara, Lucia
Haas, Johannes-Peter
Hügle, Boris
Huppertz, Hans-Iko
Weller, Frank
Consolaro, Alessandro
Bovis, Francesca
Ruperto, Nicolino
Article History
Received: 22 December 2017
Accepted: 11 January 2018
First Online: 7 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Foell, Dr. Holzinger, and Dr. Foeldvari report funding support from Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, for the translation phase and data collection performed at their sites within the EPOCA project. Dr. Horneff reports grants from Abbvie, Novartis, and Roche, and has received personal fees from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. Dr. Huppertz reports unconditional educational grants from Pfizer, Novartis, Abbvie, and LaRoche Shugai, and has received personal fees from Novartis outside the submitted work. Dr. Foeldvari reports consultations < 10.000 US $ from Abbvie, Chugai, Beyer, Roche-Genentecht, Novartis and has received Speaker fees from Pfizer, Abbvie, outside the submitted work. Dr. Ruperto has received grants from BMS, Hoffman-La Roche, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, Sobi, during the conduct of the study and personal fees and speaker honorarium from Abbvie, Ablynx, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Baxalta Biosimilars, Biogen Idec, Boehringer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Eli-Lilly, EMD Serono, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Medimmune, Novartis, Pfizer, Rpharm, Roche, Sanofi, Servier and Takeda. Dr. Consolaro, Dr. Bovis, Dr. Clara, Dr. K. Tzaribachev, Dr. N. Tzaribachev, Dr. Hügle, Dr. Ganser, Dr. Haas, Dr. Kallinich, Dr. Minden, and Dr. Weller have nothing to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study as per the requirement of the local ethical committee.