Frödin, Maria
Nellgård, Bengt
Rogmark, Cecilia
Gillespie, Brigid M.
Wikström, Ewa
Andersson, Annette Erichsen
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Gothenburg
Article History
Received: 29 March 2022
Accepted: 30 September 2022
First Online: 12 October 2022
Declarations
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: The Gothenburg Regional Ethics Review Board, Sweden (Number 166–15, Number 327–17 and amendment Number 2022–00270-02) approved the study. The study was conducted according to the Swedish Ethical Review Act SFS number: 2003:460. Based on this Act, healthcare workers are not required to provide written consent, only verbal consent was obtained as approved by the Regional Ethics Review Board. Healthcare worker were given written and verbal information about the study and who to contact if they did not want to participate in line with the four principal requirements of the Helsinki Declaration: autonomy, non-malfeasance, beneficence, and justice [CitationRef removed]. The hospital’s Chief Executive Officer, the heads of departments, the trauma orthopaedic department and the manager responsible for hip fracture surgery approved the study as a quality improvement project. Informed consent was not required from the patients when using registry data, as approved by The Gothenburg Regional Ethics Review Board. The patients received written information about the quality register, who to contact about their register data if they wanted to withdraw data from the register and/or to be used for research purpose. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
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: None to declare.