Yip, Chun Wai
Strupp, Michael
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Ministry of Education and Research (01EO0901)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2017
Revised: 13 March 2018
Accepted: 15 March 2018
First Online: 20 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: CW Yip reports no conflict of interest relevant to the manuscript. M. Strupp is Joint Chief Editor of the Journal of Neurology, Editor in Chief of Frontiers of Neuro-otology and Section Editor of F1000. He has received speaker’s honoraria from Abbott, Actelion, Auris Medical, Biogen, Eisai, GSK, Henning Pharma, Interacoustics, MSD, Otometrics, Pierre-Fabre, TEVA, UCB. He acts as a consultant for Abbott, Actelion, AurisMedical, Heel, IntraBio and Sensorion.
: This study was approved by the Hospital Ethics Committee and performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All participants gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. There are no details in this manuscript that might disclose the identity of the participants.