Steffen, Armin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1044-492X
Sommer, Ulrich J.
Maurer, Joachim T.
Abrams, Nils
Hofauer, Benedikt
Heiser, Clemens
Article History
Received: 21 March 2019
Revised: 17 August 2019
Accepted: 29 August 2019
First Online: 4 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Armin Steffen, Ulrich J. Sommer, Joachim T. Maurer and Clemens Heiser are study investigators and received honoraria and travel expenses for invited talks on behalf of Inspire Medical, Inc., outside the submitted work. Clemens Heiser is a consultant for Inspire Medical Systems. Benedikt Hofauer received travel expenses from Inspire Medical, Inc. Nils Abrams has nothing to declare.
: 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 German post-market study was approved by the ethics committee at all three institutions and was registered as NCT02293746 on ExternalRef removed.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the German post-market study.