Horn, Johannes
Denecke, Agnieszka
Luyten, Alexander
Rothe, Beate
Reinecke-Lüthge, Axel
Mikolajczyk, Rafael
Petry, Karl Ulrich
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche BKK, BARMER and Audi BKK
Article History
Received: 18 October 2018
Revised: 27 March 2019
Accepted: 29 March 2019
First Online: 16 April 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The ethics committee of Lower Saxony in Hannover was consulted but approval and/or trial registration was not required because statutory health insurances Deutsche BKK and Audi BKK use the pilot project as their routine screening program. Participants need to give written consent to be included in WOLPHSCREEN. The written consent includes an agreement that pseudonymised data and left-over material may be used for research.
: All authors have reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript and consent to publication.
: WOLPHSCREEN is managed by Klinikum Wolfsburg, the central database is located in the department of gynaecology. The contract between health insurances, gynaecologists in private practice, other partners and Klinikum Wolfsburg encourages the use of WOLPHSCREEN data for research and gives all rights for analyses and publications to the head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology as leader of the scientific team.