Ortgies, Tjark
Rullmann, Michael
Ziegelhöfer, Dorothée
Bläser, Annett
Thome, Ulrich H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Leipzig
Article History
Received: 1 January 2021
Accepted: 24 May 2021
First Online: 25 June 2021
Declarations
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: The research was carried out in adherence to ethical standards required by the University Hospital Leipzig in accordance with German state law (Sächsisches Krankenhausgesetz – SächsKHG, § 34) and the principles defined through the Declaration of Helsinki. In accordance with the above mentioned law and institutional requirements, individual ethical review and approval was not required for the study on human participants, as no direct testing on human subjects was done and only existing data was retrieved from medical records. Written informed consent from the patients’ legal guardian/next of kin to use data in retrospective analyses, in adherence to data protection law, is attained by admission to the hospital. (§ 34 SächsKHG; §203 Strafgesetzbuch).
: The authors acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Universität Leipzig within the program of Projekt DEAL. The contents of the manuscript are solely the responsibility of the authors. The funding source was not involved in the analyses or interpretation of data. We, the authors of this article, certify that there is neither a conflict of interest with any financial organization nor a non-financial interest in the subject matter discussed in this manuscript.