Aghdami, Aryan
Pedersen, Geir
Kvarstein, Elfrida Hartveit
Schnell, Tatjana
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sørlandet Sykehus HF
Article History
Received: 23 September 2024
Accepted: 21 August 2025
First Online: 16 October 2025
Declarations
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: All participating patients from each treatment unit gave their written consent to provide anonymous, clinical data for research purposes. Anonymized data from each treatment unit was collected and transferred to a common research database. The collection procedures were approved by local data protection officers for each contributing unit. Data security procedures for the research database were approved by data protection officer at the responsible center for the research. Since the data are anonymous, formal approval from the Norwegian State Data Inspectorate and Regional Committee for Medical Research and Ethics was not required.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Not applicable.