Chikhradze, N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8549-629X
Hannich, A.
Otte, IC.
Busse, T. S.
Suslow, A.
Nikelski, A.
Schumacher-Schoenert, F.
Kreisel, S. H.
Boekholt, M.
Thyrian, J. R.
Hoffmann, W.
Vollmar, H. C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01GL1701C)
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01GL1701D)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Article History
Received: 13 February 2025
Accepted: 15 August 2026
First Online: 29 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study was conducted in accordance with the criteria of the Helsinki Declaration, the ICH Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice, the Memorandum for the Preservation of Good Scientific Practice (DFG), the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research with Humans (CIOMS/WHO), the CONSORT criteria, and the Guidelines for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions (Medical Research Council). The entire intersec-CM study was reviewed and assessed as legally and ethically unobjectionable by the Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center Greifswald (BB 159/17) as well as the Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the University of Münster (2017-688-b-S).
Consent for publication: Consent for publication of pseudonymized data is obtained in the written informed consent. Prior to participation, a consent for publication will be obtained from each participant.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.