Wauthy, Pierre http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5565-0719
Pierrakos, Charalampos
Chebli, Louis
Tortora, Redente
Article History
Received: 30 May 2018
Accepted: 22 March 2019
First Online: 29 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Brugmann University Hospital Institutional Review Board (Comité d’éthique hospitalier du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann - OM 026) with the reference number CE 2016/23. The informed consent from each patient who agreed to participate in the study was obtained. Written informed consent was waived according to the procedure: the questionnaire was mailed to participants with an informed consent form. In case of agreement with the informed consent form, participants had to call the investigator to communicate the answers by telephone to the questions. The procedure has been validated by the ethics committee. The study is registered on ExternalRef removed with the reference number NCT03348072.
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