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Influence of early elective tracheostomy on the incidence of postoperative complications in patients undergoing head and neck surgery

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-019-0715-9

Published Online: 2019-03-28

Published Print: 2019-12

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Authors

Meier, Johannes

Wunschel, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4951-3769
Angermann, Anne

Ettl, Tobias

Metterlein, Thomas

Klingelhöffer, Christoph

Reichert, Torsten E.

Ritzka, Markus
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Received: 29 July 2018

Accepted: 17 March 2019

First Online: 28 March 2019

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: The study has been presented to and has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval due to the retrospective nature by the local Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center Regensburg, Germany. As part of a standard procedure all patients included in the study gave written consent to their data been used for scientific or educational purposes after anonymization.

: The study has been presented to and has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval due to the retrospective nature by the local Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center Regensburg, Germany, and has thereby been given formal institutional permission to be published.

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