Wendl, Johannes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7140-3507
Simon, Andreas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9128-6304
Kistler, Martin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-7761
Hapfelmeier, Jana http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4234-1984
Schneider, Antonius http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2847-8626
Hapfelmeier, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6765-6352
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie (DIK-2003-0030// DIK0156/02)
Technische Universität München
Article History
Accepted: 21 February 2023
First Online: 18 March 2023
Declarations
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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (Grant No: DIK-2003-0030//DIK0156/02).
: Andreas Simon, Martin Kistler, and Jana Hapfelmeier are employees at Vilua Healthcare GmbH. Johannes Wendl, Antonius Schneider, and Alexander Hapfelmeier have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: Anonymous claims data were used in a secondary data analysis. Approval by an ethical committee on human experimentation was therefore not required according to the Guidelines and Recommendations for Good Practice of Secondary Data Analysis [CitationRef removed]. The study was conducted in compliance with state, federal, and European laws.
: Anonymous claims data were used in a secondary data analysis, making it impossible and not necessary to obtain the consent to participate from participants.
: Informed consent for publication was not required from participants as only summary statistics are presented. The article does not contain information about identifiable individuals that would have required authorization for disclosure.
: Data are not publicly available because of data protection laws. Data access may be provided upon reasonable request from the corresponding author.
: The code is available on request from the corresponding author.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and data collection were performed by JW, AS, and MK. Analysis was performed by JW and AH. The first draft of the manuscript was written by JW and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.