Lindskog, Magnus http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9484-1983
Schultz, Torbjörn
Strang, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-5433
Funding for this research was provided by:
Uppsala University
Article History
Received: 14 December 2021
Accepted: 11 July 2022
First Online: 23 July 2022
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), these data were used with permission (HSN 2020–0862 HDIR 20170). 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.
: Not applicable.
: None of the authors declare any potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.