van Dooijeweert, Carmen
Deckers, Ivette A. G.
Baas, Inge O.
van der Wall, Elsken
van Diest, Paul J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-2745
Funding for this research was provided by:
Quality Foundation of the Dutch Association of Medical Specialists
Article History
Received: 13 February 2019
Accepted: 19 February 2019
First Online: 1 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Authors CD (1), ID (2), IB (3) and EW (4) declare no conflict of interest. Author PD (5) received the SKMS research grant.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the scientific and privacy committee of PALGA (the nationwide registry of histo- and cytopathology in the Netherlands). As this study was performed retrospectively on anonymized data and did not involve subjecting patients to anything, consent from the ethics committee was not required according to the Dutch law. All data were retrieved and handled in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
: All data from the PALGA database are pseudonymized by a trusted third party (ZorgTTP, Houten, the Netherlands). We only ever received fully anonymized data. Data of patients who object against the scientific use of their (anonymized) data are not included in the PALGA database. Therefore, waiver of informed consent is applicable.