Vaajala, Matias http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6173
Kuitunen, Ilari
Liukkonen, Rasmus
Ponkilainen, Ville
Kekki, Maiju
Mattila, Ville M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tampere University including Tampere University Hospital, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Article History
Received: 23 March 2023
Accepted: 3 June 2023
First Online: 28 June 2023
Declarations
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: The author’s declare no conflict of interest.
: The Ethical Committee of Tampere University Hospital waived the ethical committee evaluation of all retrospective studies utilizing routinely collected healthcare data and this decision is based on the law of medical research 488/1999 and the law of patient rights 785/1992. Permission for the use of this data was granted by Findata after the evaluation of the study protocol (Permission number: THL/1756/14.02.00/2020).
: In accordance with the Finnish regulations (the law of secondary use of routinely collected healthcare data 552/2019), no informed written consent was required because of the retrospective register-based study design, and the patients were not contacted.