Omtvedt, Marianne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1846-8205
Bean, Elisabeth
Hald, Kirsten
Larby, Elisabeth Raasholm
Majak, Guri B.
Tellum, Tina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2635-4504
Funding for this research was provided by:
Southeastern Norwegian Health Trust (2020083)
Norwegian Women’s Public Health Association (40022)
Article History
Received: 21 December 2021
Accepted: 27 May 2022
First Online: 10 June 2022
Declarations
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: Ethics approval by the National research ethics system was deemed unnecessary according to the Norwegian Act on medical and health research [], and waived by the institutional review board (IRB) and the data protection officer (DPO) at Oslo University Hospital. Informants were recruited through responding anonymously to a questionnaire distributed electronically. All data were obtained anonymously and no individual could be identified on basis on one response or combinations of responses, and no health data was collected. The informed consent to participate was inferred upon completion of the survey and this procedure was approved by the IRB and DPO at Oslo University Hospital. We confirm that all methods in this survey are performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Consent for publication was approved by the IRB and DPO at Oslo University Hospital.
: EB, ERL, KH, GBM and MO declare that they have no conflict of interests. TT received personal fees for lectures on ultrasound from GE and Medtronic, outside of the scope of this manuscript.