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Authors
Berete, Finaba
Demarest, Stefaan
Charafeddine, Rana
De Ridder, Karin
Van Oyen, Herman
Van Hoof, Wannes
Bruyère, Olivier
Van der Heyden, Johan
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Article History
Received: 24 March 2023
Accepted: 3 November 2023
First Online: 15 November 2023
Declarations
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: This study was carried out through an individual linkage between BHIS 2013 and 2018 data and the BCHI data. The BHIS was carried out in line with Belgian privacy legislation. Both BHIS 2013 and 2018 were approved by the Ghent University Hospital ethics committee on October, 1st 2012 (opinion EC UZG 2012/658) and on December, 21 2017 (opinion EC UZG 2017/1454) respectively. Participation in the BHIS is voluntary. No formal written and signed consent was foreseen as participation was considered as consent. In addition, for the data linkage, authorization was obtained from the Belgian Information security committee (local reference: Deliberation No. 17/119 of December 19, 2017, amended on September 3, 2019 for the HISlink 2013 and local reference: Deliberation No. 20/204 of November 3, 2020 for the HISlink 2018).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
