Rasschaert, Marika http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-6481
Vanclooster, Pieterjan
Mertens, Tim
Roelant, Ella
Lesage, Katrien
Prenen, Hans http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8802-7352
Verlinden, Anke
van Brussel, Ilse
Ravelingien, Jo
Janssens, Annelies
Van Dam, Peter
Peeters, Marc
Article History
Received: 3 September 2020
Revised: 29 November 2020
Accepted: 8 December 2020
First Online: 9 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The medical ethics committee of the Antwerp University Hospital has approved the outline of this cohort analysis (EC/PM/NVB/2020.075). Patient and epidemiological data were captured in accordance to The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Regulation (EU) 22016/679 (ExternalRef removed) on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. The study was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and the International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practice. All patients provided informed consent.
: Consent for publication was received via informed consent waivers signed by the patients when starting the registration activities with both ehealth tools.
: The data from different ehealth tools are available via a secure (password protected) web-based platform. Due to privacy issues, this platform cannot be made public. However, the selected and anonymised records for the patients treated in the University Hospital of Antwerp are available on file with RemedusĀ®.
: M.P. reports receiving personal fees from RemedusĀ® for his consulting and advisory role outside the submitted manuscript. All the remaining authors declared no conflicts of interest.
: This analysis received no specific funding to support the work presented.