Document is current

Article History

Received: 12 January 2022

Accepted: 1 July 2022

First Online: 15 July 2022

Declarations

:

: This study including the procedure for verbal consent was approved by the local Research Ethics Committee of the University Medicine Greifswald, Germany (Reg. No. BB 082/19). All participants (patients or legal representatives, where applicable) provided informed verbal consent to participate in this study. To guarantee anonymity of our participants, no written consent documentation was created. By implementing a verbal consent for study participation, the simulation of the overall process (inpatient admission and subsequent conversation and interview for MII consent) was interrupted as little as possible and thus the validity of the data was threatened as little as possible. Study participants had the opportunity to discontinue their participation in the study at any time. Verbal information or non-answering of (further) questions was sufficient in this regard. Any consent given for the scientific use of routine health data and left-over biosamples remains purely hypothetical.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.