Funding for this research was provided by:
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Article History
Received: 24 April 2022
Accepted: 22 July 2022
First Online: 29 July 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: The database used includes only anonymized data in compliance with the regulations of the applicable data protection laws. German law allows the use of anonymous electronic medical records for research purposes under certain conditions. According to this legislation, it is not necessary to obtain informed consent from patients or approval from a medical ethics committee for this type of observational study that contains no directly identifiable data.Because patients were only queried as aggregates and no protected health information was available for queries, no Institutional Review Board approval was required for the use of this database or the completion of this study.