Barbalat, Guillaume
van den Bergh, Don
Kossakowski, Jolanda Jacqueline
Article History
Received: 28 September 2017
Accepted: 5 June 2019
First Online: 28 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval and participant consent was not necessary according to the legislation of the Health and Disability Ethics Committee of Counties Manukau District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand. This is because this study involved the use of a de-identified database. The legislation of the Health and Disability Ethics is published in: “National Ethics Advisory Committee. 2012. Ethical Guidelines for Intervention Studies: Revised edition. Wellington: Ministry of Health”, available from ExternalRef removed
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.