Dijkstra, E. A.
Kahmann, N. L. E.
Hemmer, P. H. J.
Havenga, K.
van Etten, B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2900-2942
Article History
Received: 19 March 2020
Accepted: 19 May 2020
First Online: 8 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No grant support or financial relationship to declare by any of the authors.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethical approval was waived by the local Ethics Committee of University Medical Center Groningen in view of the retrospective nature of the study and all the procedures being performed were part of the routine care.
: No participants information and consent statement apply to these retrospective research activities. This was approved by the local Ethics Committee of University Medical Center Groningen. The reasons for this are that Permacol mesh are used more often and are therefore part of standard of care, and because some of the patients will be dead at the end of the study (high mortality rate of rectal cancer). As a result, the researchers cannot reasonably be expected to check all this data for informed consent. In addition, this research is in public interest. Furthermore, this research cannot be conducted without this data. Also, the patients included in the study may not appear in the ‘Geen bezwaar register’. We rely on Article 458 of the WGBO.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: For this type of study formal consent is not required.