Matikainen, M.
Vironen, J.
Kössi, J.
Hulmi, T.
Hertsi, M.
Rantanen, T.
Paajanen, H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Eastern Finland (UEF) including Kuopio University Hospital
Article History
Accepted: 11 October 2020
First Online: 24 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were given written and oral information on the aims and content of the study in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. The respective ethics committees in the study hospitals (Project Number KUH 5,200,637) approved the study protocol, and the protocol was entered in the clinicaltrial.gov registry (NCT01592942). All study patients signed the consent forms.