Lundman, Lars http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8772-2350
Strömbäck, Karin
Björsne, Andreas
Grendin, Joakim
Dahlin-Redfors, Ylva
Funding for this research was provided by:
Center for Clinical Research in Värmland, Sweden
Swedish Association for Otorhinolaryngology Head Neck Surgery
Article History
Received: 12 May 2019
Accepted: 12 September 2019
First Online: 23 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors are members of the professional committee that administrate the Swedish Quality Register for Otosclerosis Surgery (SQOS). Author Lars Lundman is also chairman for the National Quality Register for ENT-healthcare, in which SQOS is a part.
: For this retrospective study spanning over a period of more than 1 decade, the Regional Ethics Committee in Uppsala, Sweden (ref. 2015/377) has approved collection of clinical data as described in the Materials and methods section, without written informed consent from each patient. The patients gave their informed consent to be registered in the SQOS database at the time of surgery and were then informed that the data could be used for clinical research in the future.