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Article History

Received: 3 July 2017

Accepted: 21 May 2018

First Online: 13 June 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study conforms to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and was authorized by the German Statutory Pension Insurance based on a data protection protocol approved by the respective Department for Data Protection. Every participating peer/health professional involved in the project was informed about the study aims and received written information on the study procedure. All participants provided written consent before enrolment. Study participants operated exclusively with anonymised and declassified medical experts’ reports. Furthermore, only completely anonymised review data with no reference to the particular medical experts’ report were transferred to the researchers in charge. Due to analysing anonymous data on declassified medical expert’s reports no further approval needed to be accomplished.

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