Strous, M. T. A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7116-4465
Faes, T. K. E.
Gubbels, A. L. H. M.
van der Linden, R. L. A.
Mesker, W. E.
Bosscha, K.
Bronkhorst, C. M.
Janssen-Heijnen, M. L. G.
Vogelaar, F. J.
de Bruïne, A. P.
Article History
Received: 22 September 2021
Accepted: 1 December 2021
First Online: 22 January 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.
: This study was approved by the research committee and the Board of Directors of VieCuri Medical Centre and Jeroen Bosch Hospital. Data were obtained under the law ‘scientific research and statistics in the interest of public health, where asking for permission is not possible or appropriate for several reasons’ in the Netherlands, unless patients objected to use of their personal medical record for scientific research. Data were encrypted with an encryption key provided by the NCR. Encryption was shortly lifted to access the patients’ number for accessing his/her medical record. Following extraction data were encrypted again. Prior collected material was reassessed. A waiver of informed consent was given by the METC Maastricht under the reference number 2020-1336.
: Data were obtained under the law ‘scientific research and statistics in the interest of public health, where asking for permission is not possible or appropriate for several reasons’ in the Netherlands, unless patients objected to use of their personal medical record for scientific research.