Vallersnes, Odd Martin
Dines, Alison M.
Wood, David M.
Heyerdahl, Fridtjof
Hovda, Knut Erik
Yates, Christopher
Giraudon, Isabelle
Caganova, Blazena
Ceschi, Alessandro
Galicia, Miguel
Liakoni, Evangelia
Liechti, Matthias E.
Miró, Òscar
Noseda, Roberta
Persett, Per Sverre
Põld, Kristiina
Schmid, Yasmin
Scholz, Irene
Vigorita, Federico
Dargan, Paul I.
Funding for this research was provided by:
DPIP/ISEC Programme of the European Union (JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591, JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3591)
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Scientific Research Advisory Board of the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale
Burgergemeinde Bern
Swiss Centre of Applied Human Toxicology
University of Oslo
Article History
Received: 23 August 2023
Accepted: 22 November 2023
First Online: 29 November 2023
Declarations
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: The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The study was approved by the appropriate ethical committee or institutional review board at each participating centre, as listed below. Written consent from the patients was waived by the ethical committees, as only anonymous data registered as part of the routine clinical care were used for the project [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed].The study was approved by the following ethical committees or institutional review boards:<b>Barcelona</b>: the Ethical Committee of Hospital Clinic (Comité Ético de Investigación Clínica).<b>Basel</b>: the Ethics Committee of Northwest Switzerland.<b>Bern</b>: the Ethics Committee of the Canton Bern.<b>Bratislava</b>: the Ethics committee of the University Hospital Bratislava.<b>London</b> (KCH and STH): the National Research Ethics Service, South East London.<b>Lugano</b>: the Local Ethics Committee of Swissethics, the Swiss Association of Research Ethics Committees.<b>Monza</b>: the Ethics Committee of the IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori Foundation in Monza.<b>Oslo</b> (OAEOC and OUH): the Oslo University Hospital Information Security and Privacy Office waived the need for ethical committee approval and the need for informed consent from the patients in accordance with the Norwegian ethics committee regulations for quality improvement studies and the Norwegian Law on Health Personnel §26.<b>Tallinn</b>: the Tallinn Medical Research Ethics Committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.