Lameijer, Joost R. C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1783-500X
Coolen, Angela MP
Voogd, Adri C.
Strobbe, Luc J.
Louwman, Marieke W. J.
Venderink, Dick
Tjan-Heijnen, Vivian C.
Duijm, Lucien E. M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Maastricht University Medical Center
Article History
Received: 13 October 2017
Revised: 1 February 2018
Accepted: 5 February 2018
First Online: 17 April 2018
Change Date: 25 June 2018
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: The original version of this article, published on 17 April 2018, unfortunately contained a mistake.
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. L.E.M. Duijm.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: We have previously reported our screening studies, derived from our screening database, to the Medical Ethics Review Committee of the Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, the Netherlands (ExternalRef removed). This committee reviewed our studies and replied that according to the Medical Research Involving Human Subject Acts (WMO; ExternalRef removed 1) our kind of study does not need the approval of the committee.
: All women participating in the Dutch nationwide screening programme are asked to give informed consent to use their data for scientific and educational purposes. All women participating in our study had given this written informed consent.
: • prospective• observational• multi-centre study