Wurmbach, Viktoria S.
Schmidt, Steffen J.
Lampert, Anette
Frick, Eduard
Metzner, Michael
Bernard, Simone
Thürmann, Petra A.
Wilm, Stefan
Mortsiefer, Achim
Altiner, Attila
Sparenberg, Lisa
Szecsenyi, Joachim
Peters-Klimm, Frank
Kaufmann-Kolle, Petra
Haefeli, Walter E.
Seidling, Hanna M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1215-634X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovation Funds of The Federal Joint Committee, Germany (01VSF16019)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (funding programme Open Access Publishing by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and by Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Article History
Received: 25 July 2019
Accepted: 24 June 2020
First Online: 8 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ethical approval was granted by the responsible Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University (S-327/2017) and the Ethics Committee of the University of Witten/Herdecke (135/2017).Written informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all health care professionals and patients involved in the validation of the key questions. Oral informed consent was obtained from all patients participating in the pilot testing of the key questions in terms of their comprehensibility.
: Not applicable.
: Hanna M. Seidling is a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. The authors declare that they have no further competing interests with regard to this work.