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Article History
Received: 10 June 2018
Accepted: 11 February 2019
First Online: 26 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The multicenter data collection and analysis was approved by the Ethics committee of the Kanton Zurich, Switzerland (BASEC-Nr. 2016–00744) and in addition to local regulations also covered the following institutions:If necessary, the data collection of the individual participating centers was approved according to local regulations and approved by the respective local ethics committees. The following ethics committees and regulatory bodies were involved in this local approval process:The participants consent was written as part of the main ethics approval.
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