van der Fels, Christa Anne Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2221-0570
Leliveld, Annemarie
Buikema, Henk
van den Heuvel, Marius Christianus
de Jong, Igle Jan
Article History
Received: 25 April 2022
Accepted: 1 December 2022
First Online: 29 December 2022
Declarations
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: The Medical Ethics Review Board of the University Medical Center Groningen approved this study on 14 December 2017 (METc UMCG 2017/639). Trial registration number (UMCG Research Register): 201700868. Consent was not required for this research project. Our research goals were not known at the time of collection of our Biobank; the no-objection procedure applied. A substantial number of our patients are deceased and there are no alternative methods or alternative materials that can be used to answer our research question, which made that the Medical Ethics Review Board approved our study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.