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Published Online: 2018-12-04

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Zurfluh, Seline

Nickler, Manuela

Ottiger, Manuel

Steuer, Christian

Kutz, Alexander

Christ-Crain, Mirjam

Zimmerli, Werner

Thomann, Robert

Hoess, Claus

Henzen, Christoph

Bernasconi, Luca

Huber, Andreas

Mueller, Beat

Schuetz, Philipp
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNSF Professorship, PP00P3_150531/1, grant SNF 3200BO-116177/1)

Santé Suisse

Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung

Research Council of the Kantonsspital Aarau (1410.000.044)
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Article History

Received: 12 June 2018

Accepted: 21 November 2018

First Online: 4 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Basel as well as by the local ethics committees of Aarau, Muensterlingen, Solothurn and Luzern, all with the same ethical study number 87/06. Written informed consent was provided by all participants for the initial trial, including agreement to use their data anonymized in secondary analyses.

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