van der Zalm, Y. C.
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Schulte, P. F.
Bogers, J. P. A. M.
Termorshuizen, F.
Marcelis, M.
van Piere, M. A. G. B.
Sommer, I. E.
Selten, J. P.
Article History
First Online: 18 March 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest and that this research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
: This research was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The study was reviewed by the Medical Ethics Committee of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. This Committee decided that the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act did not apply to our study and that an official approval of this study by the committee was not required.
: Informed consent for clozapine initiation was not asked, because treatment with clozapine is according to Dutch guidelines and because both psychiatrists and ANPs are authorised to perform the monitoring.