Gainaru, Gabriela
Papadopoulos, Antonios
Tsangaris, Iraklis
Lada, Malvina
Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Evangelos J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4713-3911
Pistiki, Aikaterini
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hellenic Institute for the Study of Sepsis
Article History
Received: 23 June 2017
Accepted: 5 February 2018
First Online: 3 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study constitutes a substudy of a large prospective randomized clinical trial (registration NCT012236690). The study was approved by the ethics committee of “ATTIKON” University Hospital (266/27-07-9). Patients were enrolled after written informed consent provided by themselves or by their legal representative for patients unable to consent.
: Patients or legal representatives consented to the publication of clinical data.
: EJGB has received honoraria for providing scientific advice to AbbVie (Chicago IL, USA), Astellas (Athens, Greece), Biotest AG (Dreieich, Germany), and ThermoFisher Scientific GmbH (Henningdorf, Germany). He has received unrestricted educational funding from Biotest AG, ThermoFisher Scientific GmbH, Sanofi SA, (Athens, Greece), the Seventh Framework European Program HemoSpec, and the Horizon 2020 Marie-Curie grant European Sepsis Academy. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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