Maathuis, J.
Veldhuis, A.
Egbers, J. B.
Geerdink, J.
Karapinar-Çarkit, F.
van den Bemt, P. M. L. A.
Hulshof, E. C.
Kingma, J. S.
Article History
Received: 29 October 2025
Accepted: 15 December 2025
First Online: 3 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the local review board of the hospital (Advies commissie Lokale Uitvoerbaarheid wetenschappelijk onderzoek (ALU); registration number 24–52) on November 11, 2024. The ALU waived the need for informed consent due to the large amount of data and the retrospective nature of the data. Patient data were obtained and handled in accordance with privacy regulations.
: In this study, written informed consent was waived by the ALU because the research was retrospective in nature and involved the use of routinely collected data. No additional procedures, interventions, ore behavioural measures were introduced, and no active participation from subjects was required. Furthermore, the data used are pseudonymized and not directly traceable to individual patients, ensuring compliance with data protection and privacy regulations.