Rajamäki, Tuomas J. Jr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7089-6987
Puolakka, Pia A.
Hietaharju, Aki
Moilanen, Teemu
Jämsen, Esa
Funding for this research was provided by:
State Research Funding
Article History
Received: 17 May 2019
Accepted: 30 August 2019
First Online: 14 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), from where the medication data was extracted and by the hospital, from where the clinical data was extracted. Because this is a retrospective register study, consent from the patients or from the Ethical Board is not needed, according to Finnish and EU legislation.
: Not applicable.
: EJ, TM and AH have received payments for lectures not related to this manuscript from pharmaceutical or other medical companies.