Rimke, Christina
Enz, Andreas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-487X
Bail, Hermann Josef
Heppt, Peter
Kladny, Bernd
von Lewinski, Gabriela
Lohmann, Christoph H.
Osmanski-Zenk, Katrin
Haas, Holger
Mittelmeier, Wolfram
Article History
Received: 19 June 2020
Accepted: 24 September 2020
First Online: 19 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by ethical committee of the university medicine Rostock: “Ethikkommission an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Rostock”, Germany, Votum: A2015–0055. Due to the survey character of the study without patient data or intervention, consent was not necessary.
: Not Applicable.
: H. J. Bail, P. Heppt, B. Kladny, G. v. Lewinski, C. H. Lohmann, H. Haas and W. Mittelmeier are voluntary members of the certification commission board of the EndoCert. K. Osmanski-Zenk is funded fulltime via a third party-funded project of EndoCert, which is the fully owned subsidiary of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery. Ch. Rimke and A. Enz declare that there is no conflict of interest.