Maino, Alberto
Algra, Ale
Peyvandi, Flora
Rosendaal, Frits Richard
Siegerink, Bob https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-9142
Funding for this research was provided by:
Den Dulk Moermans Fonds (3216/28-3-13/DM)
Fondazione Angelo Bianchi Bonomi (n/a)
German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Charité (n/a)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2018
Accepted: 1 March 2019
First Online: 7 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants in the RATIO study gave oral informed consent based on national guidelines at the time of the inclusion. The RATIO study protocol and informed consent method was approved by the ethics committees of the participating hospitals: University Hospital Maastricht; University Hospital Rotterdam; University Medical Centre, Amsterdam; Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen; Leiden University Medical Centre; Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem; Sint Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein; University Medical Centre Utrecht; and Atrium Medical Centre Heerlen. For the present study no additional protocol approval was needed.
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