Tilch, Marie-Kristin
Galle, Peter R.
Schattenberg, Jörn M.
Kostev, Karel
Labenz, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8390-9663
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Article History
Received: 25 August 2021
Accepted: 2 November 2021
First Online: 10 November 2021
Declarations
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: This study was conducted according to the ethical guidelines of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki (amended, 2013). We used anonymous electronic medical records for research purposes with no directly identifiable data. Accordingly, this study did not collect informed consent from individual patients and according to German regulations, no ethical approval is needed. Anonymized data were analyzed as aggregates with no protected health information available. The Ethics Committee of the Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz has confirmed that no ethical approval is required.
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: KK is an employee of IQVIA. The other authors disclose no potential financial or non-financial conflict of interests.