Vaajala, Matias http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6173
Liukkonen, Rasmus
Ponkilainen, Ville
Kekki, Maiju
Mattila, Ville M.
Kuitunen, Ilari
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tampere University including Tampere University Hospital, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Article History
Received: 15 January 2023
Accepted: 2 February 2023
First Online: 1 March 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: The Ethical Committee of Tampere University hospital waived the ethical committee evaluation of all retrospective studies utilizing routinely collected healthcare data, and this decision is based on the law of medical research 488/1999 and the law of patient rights 785/1992.
: In accordance with the Finnish regulations (the law of secondary use of routinely collected healthcare data 552/2019), no informed written consent was required because of the retrospective register-based study design, and the patients were not contacted. Permission for use of this data was granted by Findata after evaluation of the study protocol (Permission number: THL/1756/14.02.00/2020).