Updates are available Correction dated 2020-07-09

Article History

Received: 20 March 2019

Accepted: 20 April 2020

First Online: 6 May 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The data utilized in this study were extracted from the European Multicenter Study about Spinal Cord Injury (EMSCI, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01571531,). All patients gave written informed consent. The ethical committee of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, has previously approved the EMSCI project, upon which this project is based, and the approval is also valid for any statistical analysis or reanalysis.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare they have no competing interests.