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van Eck van der Sluijs, A.
Bonenkamp, A. A.
Dekker, F. W.
Abrahams, A. C.
van Jaarsveld, B. C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
ZonMw (843004116)
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (N/A)
Baxter Nederland (N/A)
Dirinco (N/A)
Article History
Received: 16 July 2019
Accepted: 16 August 2019
First Online: 18 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Primary ethical approval was obtained from the medical research ethics committee of the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, on December 7th 2017 (reference number: 2017.491, NL63277.029.17). Central approval for 53 participating centres has been obtained from the medical research ethics committee of the VU University Medical Center. Local approval has been obtained from 44 out of 53 local ethics committees. Additional file contains a list of these local committees. For any future centres which will be included in our study, additional ethical approval will be sought. For the Belgium centre, ethical approval has been obtained from the ethics committee of Jessa Hospital (reference number: 18.19/nefro18.01).
: Not applicable.
: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Baxter Netherlands BV, and Dirinco support the work of all authors.