Schoffer, Olaf http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6922-7148
Schriefer, Dirk
Werblow, Andreas
Gottschalk, Andrea
Peschel, Peter
Liang, Linda A.
Karmann, Alexander
Klug, Stefanie J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-1362
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden an der Technischen Universität Dresden
Article History
Received: 27 January 2023
Accepted: 24 September 2023
First Online: 11 October 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: According to the German guideline “Good practice for Secondary Data Analysis” (Gute Praxis Sekundärdaten, GPS) and the German Federal Statistics Act § 16 (6) Bundestatistikgesetz (BStatG, Federal Statistics Act), institutional secondary data that is completely anonymised does not require ethical approval and informed consent. Thus, the need for ethics approval and informed consent was waived according to § 16 (6) BStatG. The data used in this study was anonymised before its use. No experiments on humans were performed. Analyses have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Use of data according to analysis plan approved by Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal and State Statistical Offices. The FDZ has granted administrative permission to have access to the data.
: Not applicable.
: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.