Gahrton, Caroline http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2787-8481
Westman, Gabriel
Lindahl, Karin
Öhrn, Fredrik
Dalgard, Olav
Lidman, Christer
Nilsson, Lars-Håkan
Said, Karouk
Duberg, Ann-Sofi
Aleman, Soo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Abbvie (.)
BMS (.)
Gilead (.)
ICT Health Support (.)
Article History
Received: 24 April 2019
Accepted: 21 October 2019
First Online: 9 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In this retrospective study, no written informed consent was collected from the study objects, according to the permission from the Ethical Review Board of Stockholm, dnr 2017/197–31/4. This to avoid potential bias of losing objects leading to less accurate results, and under the condition that the objects’ identities will only be known to the nurse from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service collecting the data, and only anonymized data will be known to the researchers. By usage of anonymized data it was considered reasonable not to require objects’ consent and the advantage of increased knowledge was considered to outweigh eventual disadvantages. The nurse from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service was granted in the obtained permission to access and collect the data in this study.
: Not applicable.
: K. L. has received honoraria for lectures/consultancy fee from AbbVie, Gilead, BMS and MSD and research grant from Abbvie and MSD. F. Ö. has received honoraria for lectures from AbbVie. O. D. has received honoraria for lectures/consultancy fee from AbbVie, Gilead, MSD/Merck and research grants from AbbVie, Gilead, and MES/Merck. A.D. has received honoraria for lectures/consultancy fee from AbbVie, BMS, Gilead and MSD. S. A. has received honoraria for lectures/consultancy fee from AbbVie, BMS, Gilead, MSD/Merck and research grants from AbbVie and Gilead.