Brueckl, Wolfgang M.
Achenbach, H. Jost
Ficker, Joachim H.
Schuette, Wolfgang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Roche Pharma AG (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 3 November 2017
Accepted: 9 March 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participating patients provided written informed consent. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (no. 4441).
: Not applicable.
: WMB received lecture and consultancy fees from Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS, Lilly, MSD and Roche Pharma. JHF received lecture and consultancy fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, and Roche Pharma. WS declares receiving payments for lectures and consultancy from Roche Pharma. HJA received lecture and consultancy fees, as well as travel support from Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Grifols, Insmed, Lilly, Novartis, PneumRx, and Roche Pharma.
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