Risse, Joachim
Volberg, Christian
Kratz, Thomas
Plöger, Birgit
Jerrentrup, Andreas
Pabst, Dirk
Kill, Clemens
Article History
Received: 17 October 2019
Accepted: 9 March 2020
First Online: 23 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Philipps-University Marburg, Baldingerstrasse/Postfach 2360, 35032 Marburg, Germany Az.: 184/10, 10.11.2010.Consent to participate was not required. This investigation in the context of resuscitation requires no written consent of the resuscitated patients in the context of quality assurance. The “Ordinance on Quality Assurance in Rescue Services” of 27 February 2003 (GVBl. I p. 105), issued based on section 26 (1), (3) and (4) and section 27 (1) of the Hessian Rescue Service Act 1998 of 24 November 1998 (GVBl. I p. 499) explicitly commits the institutions responsible for emergency care within the rescue service to anonymous data collection and evaluation in the context of quality assurance. The inclusion of clinical follow-up data in conjunction with Section 12 (2) no. 8 of the Hessian Hospital Act 2002 of 6 November 2002 (GVBl. I p. 662) is also finally regulated. With reference to this legal basis, the Ethics in Medicine Commission of the Philipps-University of Marburg agreed in 2010 to the investigation.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.