Mond, Lieselotte
Hegewald, Janice
Liebers, Falk
Epping, Jelena
Beller, Johannes
Sperlich, Stefanie
Stahmeyer, Jona Theodor
Tetzlaff, Juliane
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
Article History
Received: 28 February 2024
Accepted: 7 August 2024
First Online: 13 August 2024
Declarations
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: The analyses of this study are based on a pre-existing claims dataset collected as part of the routine administrative activities of a statutory health insurance provider. The use of this kind of data is regulated by German law (German Civil Code “Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”). The data protection officer of the Local Statutory Health Insurance of Lower Saxony-AOK Niedersachsen (Germany) has given permission to use the data for scientific purposes. Due to these regulations, neither an ethical approval nor consent to participate was required for this study. We confirm that all data were fully anonymized before we accessed them. We confirm that all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.