Chuang, Ling-Hsiang
Gumbs, Pearl
van Hout, Ben
Agnelli, Giancarlo
Kroep, Sonja
Monreal, Manuel
Bauersachs, Rupert
Willich, Stephen N.
Gitt, Anselm
Mismetti, Patrick
Cohen, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9398-4621
Jimenez, David
Funding for this research was provided by:
Daiichi-Sankyo
Article History
Accepted: 23 March 2019
First Online: 4 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: LH Chuang has served as a consultant for Daiichi-Sankyo; P Gumbs is an employee of Daiichi-Sankyo Europe GmbH; B van Hout has served as a consultant for Daiichi-Sankyo; G Agnelli reports personal fees from Bayer HealthCare, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and Daiichi-Sankyo; S Kroep has served as a consultant for Daiichi-Sankyo; M Monreal has received honoraria from Daiichi-Sankyo for participating in the advisory committee of the PREFER in VTE registry; R Bauersachs has received honoraria for lectures from Daiichi-Sankyo, the sponsor of the registry; S Willich has served as a consultant for Daiichi-Sankyo; A Gitt has received honoraria for participation in advisory boards and speaker bureaus for Daiichi-Sankyo; A Cohen reports personal fees from Bayer HealthCare, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Daiichi-Sankyo, Janssen, Portola Pharmaceuticals, and Aspen Pharmaceuticals; D Jiminez has served as a consultant for Daiichi-Sankyo.
: 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 PREFER in VTE registry was a multicenter study conducted in seven European countries including Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. There were more than 300 centers that participated in this study. The approvals were carried in each country and their centers. The following table provides the list of lead ethics boards who approved the study in each country with the date of approval.Table removed
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.