Braam, Joyce F.
van Marm, Sebastian
Severs, Tim T.
Belousov, Yevgeniy
Mahoney, Walt
Kusters, Johannes G. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7671-0736
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Medical Center Utrecht
Article History
Received: 16 June 2018
Accepted: 8 August 2018
First Online: 1 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: J.F.B., S.v.M., T.T.S. and J.G.K have no competing interests to declare. Y.B. is an employee of ELITechGroup Inc. USA. W.M. is an employee of ELITechGroup Inc. USA and works in emergency medicine at a local non-profit hospital.
: All involved hospitals have an opt-out-system regarding research on archival patient material, and only material from patients that did not opt-out has been included in this study. The local ethics boards of all involved hospitals allow the use of the archival waste materials, provided that none of the involved researchers has access to any personal patient data.
: As this study only used archival waste material, the local ethics committee approved this study without written informed consent.