Nieber, Karen
Raskopf, Esther
Möller, Johanna
Kelber, Olaf
Fürst, Robert
Shah-Hosseini, Kija
Singh, Jaswinder
Kraft, Karin
Mösgens, Ralph
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kooperation Phytopharmaka GbR,Bonn, Germany (0)
Article History
Received: 13 June 2019
Revised: 4 November 2019
Accepted: 19 November 2019
First Online: 11 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.KS, AA, JS and ER have nothing do disclose.RM reports grants and personal fees from Kooperation Phytotherapie, during the conduct of the study;, grants and/or personal fees from ALK, ASIT biotech, allergopharma, Allergy Therapeutics, Bencard, Leti, grants, Lofarma, Roxall, Stallergenes, Optima, Friulchem, Hexal, Servier, Klosterfrau, Atmos, Bayer, Bionorica, FAES, GSK, MSD, Johnson&Johnson, Meda, Novartis, Otonomy, Stada, UCB, BitopAG, Hulka, Nuvo, Ursapharm, Menarini, Mundipharma, Pohl-Boskamp, Inmunotek, Hikma, Sandoz, Lek, Cassella, outside the submitted work.KK receives financial support for the endowed professorship by Ardeypharm GmbH, Engelhard Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG, Hevert-Arzneimittel GmbH &Co. KG, Pohl-Boskamp GmbH & Co. KG, Pascoe pharmazeutische Präparate GmbH, Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH.KN reports grants and personal fees from Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie (GPT), Kooperation Phytopharmaka, Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk, Naturprodukte Dr. Pandalis GmbH & Co. KG, outside the submitted work.OK and JM are employees of the company Bayer Consumer Health, Research & Development, Phytomedicines Supply and Development Center, Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH, without commercial interest in the content of the study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (include name of committee + reference number) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards The project was positively evaluated by the Ethics Commission of the University Hospital of Cologne for the purpose of data protection and ethical evaluation or statement (reference: 14-101).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. With a positive answer to the introductory question, the patient gave oral consent to participate in the survey.