van Dam van Isselt, Eléonore F.
van Wijngaarden, Jan
Lok, Dirk J. A.
Achterberg, Wilco P.
Article History
Received: 5 June 2018
Accepted: 4 October 2018
First Online: 12 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
: Ethical approval was not mandatory under Dutch regulations [The Dutch Law of Agreement to Medical Treatment (WGBO) and the Dutch law on Medical Research in Humans (WMO)], because this was a retrospective medical chart review study that aimed to evaluate the provided care (quality assessment of standard care). Furthermore, data were retrieved from the patients file by the patients’ physician only and put into an anonymous database to ensure the privacy of the patients, complied with the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act (Wbp).
: For this type of study formal consent is not required.