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Authors
Schaub, Corinne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-1818
Von Gunten, Armin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-3803
Morin, Diane https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8905-8708
Wild, Pascal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-3808
Gomez, Patrick https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7463-1858
Popp, Julius https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-0312
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
HESAV and the Leenaards Foundation
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First Online: 12 September 2018
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The first author and a research assistant provided information about the study to the patients and their legal representatives. The legal representatives (most often a family member) were given multiple days to respond and provide written consent. The head physician and head nurse gave permission for the study to be conducted in their service. All the data were coded to protect confidentiality on SwitchDrive. The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Canton Vaud, protocol 23/14, and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
