Terwee, C. B.
Prinsen, C. A. C.
Chiarotto, A.
Westerman, M. J.
Patrick, D. L.
Alonso, J.
Bouter, L. M.
de Vet, H. C. W.
Mokkink, L. B.
Article History
Accepted: 3 March 2018
First Online: 17 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: As this study did not involve experiments with patients or study subjects, it was exempt from ethical approval according to the Dutch Medical Research in Human Subjects Act (WMO).
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: According to the Dutch Medical Research in Human Subjects Act (WMO), obtaining informed consent was not necessary.