Satokangas, Markku http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-8687
Lumme, Sonja
Arffman, Martti
Keskimäki, Ilmo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Academy of Finland (277 939)
Academy of Finland (312 708)
NordForsk (74637)
Emil Aaltosen Säätiö (-)
Health Centre of the City of Helsinki (-)
City of Helsinki Urban Facts (-)
Finnish General Practice Foundation (-)
General Practitioners in Finland (-)
Article History
Received: 18 March 2019
Accepted: 20 August 2019
First Online: 4 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research Ethics Committee of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has approved this study. Consent to participate was not applicable – the study group assessed pseudonymised data from routinely collected registers and did not handle personal information at any point. The registry administrator, THL, approved the usage of register data and the authorities of Statistics Finland performed the pseudonymisation.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.