de Man, Yvonne http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-9394
Atsma, Femke
Jonkers, Wilma
de Rooij, Sophia E. J. A.
Westert, Gert P.
Jeurissen, Patrick P. T.
Groenewoud, A. Stef
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (-)
Article History
Received: 7 March 2019
Accepted: 30 September 2019
First Online: 15 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Under Dutch national law (Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO)), approval of an institutional review board for this study was not required. This study is not subject to theMedical Research in Human Subjects as subjects were not subjected to actions or interventions. Also, no rules of conduct were imposed on them. Consent to participate is deemed unnecessary according to national regulations. To ensure the privacy of patient, researchers received non-identifiable patient data. According to Dutch law no (written) informed consent to publish the material is needed in case anonymized data are used. Also, the insurance company has provided consent for publication under the condition that the extracted data will not be published with recognizable hospitals or patients.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.