Nymberg, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9901-0580
Ekvall Hansson, Eva
Stenman, Emelie
Calling, Susanna
Sundquist, Kristina
Sundquist, Jan
Zöller, Bengt
Article History
Received: 15 February 2018
Accepted: 24 September 2018
First Online: 17 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All parts of the study will be conducted according to the principles of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration, and the study has been approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Lund (registration number 2016/404). The study is registered at , registration number NCT02869854. Written informed consent will be obtained from all patients entering the study before inclusion. We intend to extend the pilot study if it shows positive results. In this case, we will apply for new ethical approval. The study adheres to the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) guidelines, and the SPIRIT checklist is provided as Additional file . The results will be reported following the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines.
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