Jakupi, Xhevat
Mlakar, Jana
Lunar, Maja M.
Seme, Katja
Rudhani, Ibrahim
Raka, Lul
Vince, Adriana
Poljak, Mario http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3216-7564
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development, project “Support to health system in Kosovo”
Article History
Received: 27 February 2018
Accepted: 12 October 2018
First Online: 3 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approvals covering laboratory testing and face-to-face interviews with patients attending hemodialysis at all seven hemodialysis centers included in this study were obtained from the Ethical Board of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina (Kosovo) and the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology in Ljubljana (Slovenia). According to the National Legislation of the Republic of Slovenia, no informed consent is needed for research on archival clinical samples. For the patients’ identity protection, all samples were tested anonymously and coded. After detailed presentation of the study in each of seven hemodialysis centers included in this study verbal consent was given by the management of each hemodialysis center and recorded in official Minutes. In addition, all hemodialysis patients enrolled in the survey in December 2015 signed written informed consent for conducting interviews.
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