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Sexually transmitted infections in male heterosexual Dutch clients who visited German cross-border female sex workers; a 3 year retrospective study

Published Online: 2020-07-29

Published Print: 2020-12

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Kampman, Carolina J. G. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0675-6231
Hoebe, Christian J. P. A.

Koene, René

Kamp, Laura

Jansen, Klaus

Koedijk, Femke D. H.

Tostmann, Alma

Hautvast, Jeannine L. A.
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Article History

Received: 24 January 2020

Accepted: 12 July 2020

First Online: 29 July 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The data were obtained from medical records in a fully anonymized and de-identified manner and none of the researchers had access to patient identifying information. Medical employees and the data-manager of the STI clinic was responsible for the anonymization of the dataset used in this study. Eight STI clinics participated in this observational study and agreed to provide the data used.The study protocol was exempted from formal medical-ethical approval under prevailing law in the Netherlands (law of medical scientifical research in humans: ExternalRef removed) as it concerns a retrospective observational study using anonymous data only from a patient registration system, stated by the National Central Committee for Human Studies: ExternalRef removed and in the conduct of good behaviour in research ExternalRef removed. Therefore, no additional clients’ consent was needed.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests..

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