Graf, Joachim
Abele, Harald
Wallwiener, Markus
Kantelhardt, Eva J.
Brucker, Sara Y.
Simoes, Elisabeth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
Article History
Received: 20 May 2026
Accepted: 3 July 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Conflict of interest: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethical approval: This study was approved by the local ethics committee (Project Nos. 196/2015B02 and 089/2015B02, University Hospital Tübingen).
Consent to participate: In the original prospective study (ePROCOM), informed consent was obtained from all participants. For this secondary analysis, no additional consent could be obtained, because the data had been fully anonymized.
Consent to publish: Not applicable.