Pettke, Aleksandra
Stassen, Willem
Laflamme, Lucie
Wallis, Lee Alan
Hasselberg, Marie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Karolinska Institute
Article History
Received: 19 March 2023
Accepted: 5 June 2023
First Online: 27 June 2023
Declarations
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: All methods in this study were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations as per Editorial Policies of BMC Emergency Medicine.Ethical approval was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town (HREC reference nr: 787/2020). A waiver of informed consent was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town as the study was retrospective in nature and data were anonymised at data extraction. All data were analysed in aggregate. After ethical approval, approval was granted from the Western Cape Department of Health via the National Health Research Database (NHRD).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.