Stentzel, Ulrike https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9723-8677
van den Berg, Neeltje
Schulze, Lara N.
Schwaneberg, Thea
Radicke, Franziska
Langosch, Jens M.
Freyberger, Harald J.
Hoffmann, Wolfgang
Grabe, Hans-Jörgen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Damp Stiftung (not available)
Article History
Received: 9 January 2018
Accepted: 11 May 2018
First Online: 29 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Tecla is approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Medicine Greifswald (BB 122/14). The committee stated that the majority of the members of the committee concluded that there are no ethical and legal concerns against the implementation of the study, and therefore approves the proposal. Tecla is retrospectively registered at 2015\05\21 at the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00008548). IMeS is also approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Medicine Greifswald; BB 017/15. All patients had to sign an informed consent to participate. All appropriate legal guardians or representatives were informed about the participation. All guardians or representatives indicated that the patients were capable of providing ethical consent to participate.
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