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Authors
Scheers, Hans
Van Remoortel, Hans
Lauwers, Karen
Gillebeert, Johan
Stroobants, Stijn
Vranckx, Pascal
De Buck, Emmy
Vandekerckhove, Philippe
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Article History
Received: 19 October 2021
Accepted: 10 January 2022
First Online: 25 January 2022
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: For this study, ethics approval was waived by the Ethics Committee for Research of KU Leuven. Purely retrospective studies do not fall under the scope of the Belgian Experiments Act (article 3, §2). As such, a retrospective study does not qualify as an experiment (and thus also not as “Human subject research”) and therefore, based on the Experimental Act, no EC approval is required, nor a written prior informed consent of the participants for study participation.The following text is displayed in each first aid station at mass gatherings, in 3 languages (Dutch, French and English): ExternalRef removed. Our data policy complies with the rules of Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data of 27 April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation) and to the Belgian legislation relating to data protection.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
