Devriendt, Els
Heeren, Pieter
Fieuws, Steffen
Wellens, Nathalie I. H.
Deschodt, Mieke
Flamaing, Johan
Sabbe, Marc
Milisen, Koen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9230-1246
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (135182)
Article History
Received: 12 February 2018
Accepted: 1 October 2018
First Online: 16 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study is approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of University Hospitals Leuven (B322201422910). Written informed consent will be obtained from all participants or proxies, except for patients who are unable to write. Only among the latter an explicit oral consent is accepted.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Koen Milisen, section editor of BMC Geriatrics, had no role in the peer-review process or publication decision of this manuscript.
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