Mueller, Yolanda K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8861-4538
Monod, Stefanie
Locatelli, Isabella
Büla, Christophe
Cornuz, Jacques
Senn, Nicolas
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften
Article History
Received: 29 January 2018
Accepted: 6 March 2018
First Online: 13 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Patients gave written informed consent. The study was approved on the 19th of October 2012 by the Research Ethics Commission of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland (number 287/2012), and registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (number NCT01816087).
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