Jäntti, Saara
Ponkilainen, Ville
Kuitunen, Ilari
Uimonen, Mikko M.
Huttunen, Tuomas
Mattila, Ville M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tampere University including Tampere University Hospital, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Article History
Received: 10 October 2022
Accepted: 14 July 2023
First Online: 24 July 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The ethical committee evaluation was waived by the Tampere University Hospital ethical committee. Tampere University Hospital is the tertiary academic unit of the Pirkanmaa hospital district. According to the Finnish research legislation ethical committee evaluation is not needed when routinely collected healthcare data is analyzed and the participants are not contacted. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and Finnish regulations (Law on the secondary use of routinely collected healthcare data and Law of medical research).According to Finnish research law and the law on the secondary use of routinely collected healthcare data informed consent to participate is not required when instituitonal or national register data is analyzed retrospectively. Therefore, the need for informed consent was waived by the institutional review boards of the participating hospitals (Tampere University Hospital, Central Finland Hospital Nova and Mikkeli Central Hospital) and the ethical committee of the Tampere University Hospital.
: Not required due to the register-based study design.