Vanaudenhove, Thibault
Van Muylem, Alain
Howarth, Nigel
Gevenois, Pierre Alain
Tack, Denis http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1509-1983
Article History
Received: 26 October 2018
Revised: 18 February 2019
Accepted: 8 March 2019
First Online: 8 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Denis Tack.
: 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.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because according to the EU legislation (i.e., the Directive 95/46/EC regarding the protection of data of individuals), a purely observational retrospective study with complete anonymization of the data at the source, which removes any possibility of identifying the individual patients, is not subject to ethical review or to written informed consent.
: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because for the same reasons as the informed consent. (See above.)
: • retrospective• observational• anonymized dose registry data analysis at national level.