Article History
Received: 26 March 2018
Accepted: 23 January 2019
First Online: 7 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study has not been funded. All authors have declared that they have no conflict 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.With permission of the University of Zurich Ethics Commission (BASEC No 2016-00164), this retrospective study on all consecutive patients with open abdomen treatment at one institution from January 2013 to June 2015 was performed. Mainly due to high mortality, informed consent could not be obtained from all individuals included in this retrospective study.