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Kamp, O. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-4471
Jansen, O.
Lefering, R.
Aach, M.
Waydhas, C.
Dudda, M.
Schildhauer, T. A.
Hamsen, U.
Article History
Received: 18 August 2020
Accepted: 24 November 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The TR-DGU is a voluntary registry. As a compulsory tool for quality assessment, for the years 2002–15 no informed consent is necessary for data collection. Participation in TR-DGU and analysis of data are approved by local ethical review boards (no. of approval 16–5731).Scientific data analysis is approved according to a peer-reviewed procedure established by the Committee on Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care and Trauma Management (Sektion NIS) of the German Trauma Society. The present investigation has been approved and registered under DGU ID 2016–015 by the institutional review board of the TR-DGU.
: Not applicable.
: Rolf Lefering: The institution IFOM, University Witten/Herdecke has a service agreement with AUC GmbH who is operating the TR-DGU data. This agreement includes statistical support in scientific analysis using registry data.The remaining authors have no conflict of interest to declare.