Doblhammer, Gabriele https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7746-0652
Erlangsen, Annette https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3475-0558
Fink, Anne https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2106-2940
Canudas-Romo, Vladimir https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6532-0089
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität Rostock
Article History
Received: 19 February 2025
Accepted: 8 November 2025
First Online: 2 December 2025
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Access to the data was legally approved by the WIDO (granted on 4 February 2021). The study was based on administrative claims data in which patients were never directly involved and data were fully anonymized before analyses. Individual patients cannot be identified during or after data collection, and the analyses presented do not affect patients whose anonymized records were used. Participant consent was not required. The University of Rostock Research Ethics Committee confirmed that no ethical approval is required.
: The authors declare no competing interests.