Schaub, Corinne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-1818
Von Gunten, Armin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-3803
Morin, Diane http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8905-8708
Wild, Pascal http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-3808
Gomez, Patrick http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7463-1858
Popp, Julius http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-0312
Funding for this research was provided by:
HESAV and the Leenaards Foundation
Article History
First Online: 12 September 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The first author and a research assistant provided information about the study to the patients and their legal representatives. The legal representatives (most often a family member) were given multiple days to respond and provide written consent. The head physician and head nurse gave permission for the study to be conducted in their service. All the data were coded to protect confidentiality on SwitchDrive. The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Canton Vaud, protocol 23/14, and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.