Strang, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-5433
Fürst, Per
Hedman, Christel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4183-7598
Bergqvist, Jenny
Adlitzer, Helena
Schultz, Torbjörn
Funding for this research was provided by:
Karolinska Institute
Article History
Received: 9 March 2021
Accepted: 7 May 2021
First Online: 19 May 2021
Declarations
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: The patients included in this study were deceased and registered in the Stockholm Region’s administrative healthcare databases (VAL databases). The study was conducted in compliance with Good Clinical Practices protocol and also in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki principles, when applicable (deceased persons with encrypted id-numbers). The working procedure and study design were examined by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Etikprövningsmyndigheten, Dnr 2020-02186), who had no ethical objections to the study. They gave permission to use the information and healthcare data of the deceased and required no informed consent from next of kin, in accordance with Swedish law (2003:460), fourth paragraph (2003:615). The same law also waives the requirement to obtain informal consent.Consent for publication.Not applicable.
: None of the authors declare any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.