Tetzlaff, Juliane http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5393-5991
Geyer, Siegfried
Westhoff-Bleck, Mechthild
Sperlich, Stefanie
Epping, Jelena
Tetzlaff, Fabian
Funding for this research was provided by:
AOK Niedersachsen (not applicable)
Article History
Received: 31 August 2020
Accepted: 13 January 2021
First Online: 1 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Our study is based on claims data, i.e., on routinely collected data of a statutory health insurance provider. We confirm that all data are fully anonymised before we accessed them. The use of this sort of data for scientific purposes is regulated by federal law. The data protection officer of the Statutory Local Health Insurance of Lower Saxony (AOK Niedersachsen) has approved its use. Consent to participate is not applicable.
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.