Hillen, Marij A.
de Haes, Hanneke C. J. M.
van Tienhoven, Geertjan
Bijker, Nina
van Laarhoven, Hanneke W. M.
Vermeulen, Daniëlle M.
Smets, Ellen M. A.
Article History
Received: 22 June 2015
Accepted: 24 June 2015
First Online: 31 July 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The experiment complies with the current laws of the country in which they were performed. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The hospital’s Medical Ethics Committee provided an exemption for the study to seek formal approval. The study was registered with the Dutch Trial Registry, with number NTR3934. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.