Autio, Anniina H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6390-6059
Paavola, Juho
Tervonen, Joona
Lång, Maarit
Huuskonen, Terhi J.
Huttunen, Jukka
Kärkkäinen, Virve
von und zu Fraunberg, Mikael
Lindgren, Antti E.
Koivisto, Timo
Jääskeläinen, Juha E.
Kämäräinen, Olli-Pekka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Maire Taposen Säätiö
Pro Humanitate Foundation
Päivikki ja Sakari Sohlbergin Säätiö
Kuopion Yliopistollinen Sairaala
Academy of Finland
Article History
Received: 27 September 2020
Accepted: 18 January 2021
First Online: 25 February 2021
Declarations
:
: The Kuopio University Hospital Research Ethics Committee approved the study and the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. KUH Neurosurgery IA Study Group received a written informed consent from all patients in the database. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland approved the data fusion from the national registries. The patients of the study cohort were not contacted during the study. A notable part of our data is acquired from Finnish national health registries, which are regulated by the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare. Due to this, we are not allowed to share our datasets openly in any form, because of privacy requirements of Finnish law. Interested researchers can be granted permissions to our datasets, but this requires individual evaluation of the intended use of the data and the final permission will be granted by Institute of Health and Welfare.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Kuopio University Hospital.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.