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Received: 20 January 2023

Accepted: 21 August 2023

First Online: 2 September 2023

Declarations

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: According to Executive Order (LBK) No. 1188 of 24 September 2016 on the Danish Health Act (Sundhedsloven) § 46, Sects. "InternalRef removed" and "InternalRef removed", information about individuals' health conditions, other purely private matters and other confidential information from patient records can, when the research project is not covered by the Act on a scientific ethics committee system and treatment of biomedical research projects, can be passed on to a researcher for use in a concrete research project of significant societal importance interest after approval by the Agency for Patient Safety, which determines conditions for the transfer. Therefore, collection of the data in the Relay study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (The Region of Southern Denmark project-ID 2008-58-0035). The Review Board at the Regional Scientific Ethical Committees of Southern Denmark decided that a formal informed consent was not required the patients as the study was considered a register study that did not entail an intervention (Project ID: S-20130084). Collection of data from the Electronic Health Records was approved by the Danish Patient Safety Authority (Project-ID 3-3013-1601/1) and the Danish Data Protection Agency (The Region of Southern Denmark Project-ID 16/12126). The authors confirm that all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.