Lapa, Sriramya
Foerch, Christian
Singer, Oliver C.
Hattingen, Elke
Luger, Sebastian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-2196
Funding for this research was provided by:
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Article History
Received: 4 May 2020
Accepted: 19 October 2020
First Online: 6 November 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: For this study or in the context of this study all authors have not received any funding from any institution, including personal relationships, interests, grants, employment, affiliations, patents, inventions, honoraria, consultancies, royalties, stock options/ownership, or expert testimony for the last 36 months. Outside the submitted work, Dr. Foerch reports personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Prediction Bioscience and personal fees from Bristol Myers Squibb. In addition, Dr. Foerch has a patent “GFAP for identification of intracerebral hemorrhage” licensed to Banyan Biomarkers. Outside the submitted work, Dr. Luger reports consultancy fees from Sonovum GmbH. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt and was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All patients, resp. their legal representatives, gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study.
: All authors agreed with the content of the manuscript and gave explicit consent to submit the work to the journal “Dysphagia”. The authors obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institutes where the work has been carried out.