Nimptsch, Ulrike http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4292-5162
Haist, Thomas
Gockel, Ines
Mansky, Thomas
Lorenz, Dietmar
Article History
Received: 25 October 2018
Accepted: 10 December 2018
First Online: 14 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form and declare: The Department for Structural Advancement and Quality Management in Health Care at Technische Universität Berlin, for which UN and TM worked from 2010 to 2018, received ongoing funding from Helios Kliniken GmbH. TH, IG, and DL have nothing to disclose.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. In accordance with the German guideline for conducting administrative data analyses “Good Practice in Secondary Data Analysis (GPS),” no ethical approval was required for this study.Swart E, Gothe H, Geyer S, Jaunzeme J, Maier B, Grobe TG, Ihle P; German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention; German Society for Epidemiology. [Good Practice of Secondary Data Analysis (GPS): guidelines and recommendations]. Gesundheitswesen 2015;77(2):120–6.
: This study used administrative data provided by the Research Data Centre of the German Federal Statistical Office. In accordance with the terms of use regarding microdata provided by the Research Data Centres of the Federal Statistical Office and the Statistical Offices of the Federal States, no informed consent was required for this study.ExternalRef removed