Johansson, Helena
Lundgren, Kristin
Hagiwara, Magnus Andersson
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Boras
Article History
Received: 30 November 2021
Accepted: 18 April 2022
First Online: 6 May 2022
Declarations
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: The Regional Ethics Committee, department 2 medicine, Stockholm, Sweden (Dnr 2021–03440), approved this study. This study observed strict compliance of the research ethics guidelines [CitationRef removed]. Ethical considerations were made during the study wherein the benefit of the research was weighed against the risks to patients’ health and integrity. Prior to the medical record review, an approval was obtained from the operations manager in the included region. Internal investigations, incident analyses, EMS medical records, patients’ identity, and the EMS clinicians were de-identified in all lex Maria cases. Therefore, distinguishing between the patients and the staff is impossible. Consent was not requested from the patients or the EMS clinicians, as Lex Maria reports are publicly available legal documents. The present study has received ethical approval for not requesting informed consent in connection with medical record review. The reason for this is that it is difficult to get in touch with these patients and that medical record review is a normal procedure in healthcare to check the quality of care. The medical record-derived data were de-identified, and a codebook was created and was stored separately from the dataset.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.