Qu, Zhi
Ling, Qi
Gwiasda, Jill
Xu, Xiao
Schrem, Harald http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5527-7555
Beneke, Jan
Kaltenborn, Alexander
Krauth, Christian
Mix, Heiko
Klempnauer, Jürgen
Emmanouilidis, Nikos
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesminsiterium für Bildung und Forschung (01EO1302)
Article History
Received: 14 March 2018
Accepted: 10 July 2018
First Online: 17 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: 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 Ethics Committee of Hannover Medical School approved of this retrospective study (approval decision number 1683-2013).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Patients provided informed consent that their data may be used for scientific purposes at the time of hospital admission which is the general policy of our institution.