Chok, Lionel
Bachli, Esther B.
Steiger, Peter
Bettex, Dominique
Cottini, Silvia R.
Keller, Emanuela
Maggiorini, Marco
Schuepbach, Reto A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7058-4377
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vontobel-Stiftung
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (PZ00P3_136639)
Zentrum für klinische Forschung
Article History
Received: 29 March 2017
Accepted: 21 January 2018
First Online: 5 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This observational trial complies with the current version of the Declaration of Helsinki and the national legal and regulatory requirements, and has been approved by the Canton Ethics Committee (Kantonale Ethikkommission Zurich, Switzerland, KEK-ZH-Nr. 2014–0452).
: According to the Ethics Committee no specific consent for the study was required given that the study was performed with an anonymized set of data i.e. without individual data.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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