Huhtanen, Heidi
Nyman, Mikko
Mohsen, Tarek
Virkki, Arho
Karlsson, Antti
Hirvonen, Jussi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Turku University Hospital, Finland
Paulon Säätiö
Article History
Received: 3 September 2021
Accepted: 21 February 2022
First Online: 14 March 2022
Declarations
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: We obtained permission from The Hospital District of Southwest Finland. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Waiver for written patient consent was not sought from the institutional review board (IRB, called the Ethics Committee of The Hospital District of Southwest Finland), because it is not required by the national legislature for retrospective studies of existing data (e.g. registry data). Institutional review board review (approval or waiver) was not sought, because it is not required by the national legislature for retrospective studies of existing data. Registry studies in Finland are exempted from ethical approval by law, and are only subject to hospital district permission. This is based on the following legislature: Law on the secondary use of social and health data (552/2019), Data protection act (1050/2018), Act on the publicity of the activities of authorities (621/1999), and the EU GDPR (2016/679). Legislature is publicly available atExternalRef removed(most laws and decrees are only available in Finnish and Swedish). For any additional inquiries, please contact Turku Research Services atExternalRef removed.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following potentially competing interests: T.M. was an employee of Reaktor Innovations Oy at the time of the study. The other authors have no competing interests.