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Article History

Received: 13 March 2019

Accepted: 4 November 2019

First Online: 21 November 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study is part of the KUPA project approved by the Regional Ethics Review Board in Lund, Sweden (no 2015/69), with trial registration NCT02708498. The research project is guided by the ethical principles for medical research outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. The closest relatives were informed of the study and asked if they were interested in participating. If they wanted to participate, the names and contact details of the researchers and oral information about the study were given, and the relatives were asked again if they were willing to participate. Before the interview, additional oral and written information about the study was given, about the next of kin’s right to withdraw from the study at any time without suffering any consequences, and written informed consent was signed by each participant. The participants’ confidentiality was respected when reporting the findings, which was done at a group level.

: We confirm that we have obtained consent to publish from the participants through the written and oral informed consent.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.