Merzenich, Hiltrud http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7299-3764
Baaken, Dan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4498-2352
Schmidt, Marcus
Bekes, Inga
Schwentner, Lukas
Janni, Wolfgang
Woeckel, Achim
Bartkowiak, Detlef
Wiegel, Thomas
Blettner, Maria
Wollschläger, Daniel
Schmidberger, Heinz
Funding for this research was provided by:
bundesministerium für bildung und forschung (02NUK048)
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Article History
Received: 9 July 2021
Accepted: 30 September 2021
First Online: 9 October 2021
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The ESCaRa-Study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz and the Ethics Committee of the University of Ulm. The data protection officer approved using the patients’ hospital records and the performing of a mortality follow-up for the entire cohort without written informed consent of the patients. For the questionnaire survey, individual informed consent was obtained.