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Trends in incidence, mortality, and causes of death associated with systemic sclerosis in Denmark between 1995 and 2015: a nationwide cohort study

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-018-0043-6

Published Online: 2018-12-07

Published Print: 2018-12

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Butt, Sheraz A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4389-9162
Jeppesen, Jørgen L.

Fuchs, Christine

Mogensen, Mette

Engelhart, Merete

Torp-Pedersen, Christian

Gislason, Gunnar H.

Jacobsen, Søren

Andersson, Charlotte
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Received: 5 April 2018

Accepted: 6 November 2018

First Online: 7 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (ref. 2007-58-0015, int. ref. GEH-2014-018). As a retrospective registry-based study, Danish law does not require ethical approval []. The chart review for the validation process was approved by the Danish Patient Safety Authority and the permission was granted based on the assumption that only physicians at a given department reviewed its own patients’ charts.

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