Driessen, Arne http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3966-4237
Wafaisade, Arasch
Lefering, Rolf
Migliorini, Filippo
Fröhlich, Matthias
Arbab, Dariusch
Maegele, Marc
Mutschler, Manuel
Article History
Received: 8 November 2019
Accepted: 16 May 2020
First Online: 24 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors state that this manuscript has not been published previously and that there is no consideration for publication elsewhere. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The present study is in line with the publication guidelines of the TraumaRegister-DGU<sup>®</sup> and is registered as TR-DGU project ID 2018-005. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. More information can be found online on ExternalRef removed.
: The entry and the analysis of data are pseudonymised; therefore, no special consent had to be obtained. Please see the guidelines of the TR-DGU for further information. The presented work is based on routinely documented data used for an initiative for external quality control. External quality control is a legal requirement for hospitals. Since only routinely available data were used, no informed consent was required. Institutional and demographic details were removed from the scientific dataset so that a re-identification of individual cases was impossible.
: All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.