Jacob, Louis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1071-1239
Koyanagi, Ai https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9565-5004
Haro, Josep Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3984-277X
Shin, Jae Il https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-1820
Smith, Lee https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-9833
Konrad, Marcel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-5092
Kostev, Karel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2124-7227
Article History
Received: 4 April 2022
Accepted: 13 September 2022
First Online: 27 September 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: 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.