Czorlich, Patrick http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0865-241X
Mader, Marius Marc-Daniel
Emami, Pedram
Westphal, Manfred
Lefering, Rolf
Hoffmann, Michael
Article History
Received: 10 May 2019
Revised: 13 July 2019
Accepted: 5 August 2019
First Online: 14 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Rolf Lefering was paid for statistical reviews from <i>European Journal of Trauma</i>. He is employed by the University of Witten/Herdecke which has a service agreement with the AUC/German Society for Trauma Surgery for scientific assistance, annual audit reports, etc. Rolf Lefering received sponsoring from the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), BAST (Federal Highway Research Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany), BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany), and several other research foundations. He also received payments for lectures at the KKS Düsseldorf and Frankfurt; and at Mibeg for education in statistics for study nurses, study physicians, and project managers.All other authors have no conflicts of interest.
: This analysis was reported to the local ethic committee (WF-059-18). Informed consent was waived for this kind of study.