Jacob, Louis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1071-1239
Koyanagi, Ai https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9565-5004
Smith, Lee https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-9833
Shin, Jae Il https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-1820
Haro, Josep Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3984-277X
Garthe, Tilman
Kostev, Karel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2124-7227
Article History
Received: 30 November 2021
Accepted: 1 February 2022
First Online: 18 February 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare they have no competing financial interests.
: German law allows the use of anonymous electronic medical records for research purposes under certain conditions. According to this legislation, it is not necessary to obtain informed consent from patients or approval from a medical ethics committee for this type of observational study that contains no directly identifiable data.