Plontke, Stefan K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5424-7688
Fröhlich, Laura
Cozma, Sebastian
Koitschev, Assen
Reimann, Katrin
Weiß, Rainer
Götze, Gerrit
Seiwerth, Ingmar
Kösling, Sabrina
Rahne, Torsten
Article History
Received: 4 April 2020
Accepted: 27 May 2020
First Online: 5 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest for the work under consideration for publication. Outside the submitted work the following financial activities of with entities are declared for all authors (initials): <i>Research grants:</i> Federal Ministry of Education and Science in Germany, grant number: BMBF 01KG1427 (SKP). <i>Personal Consultancies:</i> AudioCure Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany (SKP). <i>Institutional research collaborations:</i> MED-EL, Austria (SKP, LF, SC, AK, GG, TR); Cochlear, Australia (SKP, TR); Oticon Medical, Denmark (SKP, TR); Schwabe Arzneimittel, Germany (SKP). <i>Travel support for lectures:</i> MED-EL, Austria (SKP, LF, SC, AK, IS, TR). <i>Honorary for Lectures or Session Moderations:</i> Infectopharm, Germany; Merck Serono, Darmstadt, Germany; Schwabe Arzneimittel, Germany (SKP).
: 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. The study was approved by the institutional ethical review board of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (protocol number: 2019-026).
: All patients signed an informed consent form as approved by the responsible ethics committee of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (approval number: 2019-026).