de Bakker, Henri M.
Roelandt, Gijsbrecht H. J.
Soerdjbalie-Maikoe, Vidija
van Rijn, Rick R.
de Bakker, Bernadette S. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0758-4064
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Amsterdam
Article History
Received: 8 May 2018
Revised: 9 August 2018
Accepted: 28 August 2018
First Online: 1 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor for this manuscript is Bernadette S. de Bakker, MD PhD.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because it concerned a retrospective study with anonymised data from deceased patients.
: Ethical Statement: The database contained anonymised patient data. Approval by a medical ethical committee for this anonymised retrospective investigation in deceased patients is not required to perform this type of study in The Netherlands.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in de Bakker et al [CitationRef removed]. This methodological paper describes how we incorporated all forensic cases into a database for further research. None of the cases used in the current manuscript have been previously described, mentioned or presented.
: • Retrospective• Observational• Performed at one institution