Van Bulck, Liesbet
Goossens, Eva
Luyckx, Koen
Apers, Silke
Oechslin, Erwin
Thomet, Corina
Budts, Werner
Enomoto, Junko
Sluman, Maayke A.
Lu, Chun-Wei
Jackson, Jamie L.
Khairy, Paul
Cook, Stephen C.
Chidambarathanu, Shanthi
Alday, Luis
Eriksen, Katrine
Dellborg, Mikael
Berghammer, Malin
Johansson, Bengt
Mackie, Andrew S.
Menahem, Samuel
Caruana, Maryanne
Veldtman, Gruschen
Soufi, Alexandra
Fernandes, Susan M.
White, Kamila
Callus, Edward
Kutty, Shelby
Moons, Philip http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-4516
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven (0T/11/033)
Hjärt-Lungfonden (20130607)
Centrum fÖr Personcentrerad Vård
Cardiac Children's Foundation Taiwan (CCF2013_02)
Article History
Received: 31 October 2019
Accepted: 25 May 2020
First Online: 3 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants provided written informed consent to participate and procedures were in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki [CitationRef removed]. The study has been approved by the following institutional review boards: University Hospitals Leuven/KU Leuven Belgium (University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; the coordinating center), Comité de Ética de Hospital de Niños de la Santísima Trinidad (Hospital de Niños de la Santísima Trinidad, Cordoba, Argentina), Monash Health HREC Low Risk Review Panel (Monash University, Clayton, Australia), Research Ethics Board of the University of Alberta (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Comité d’éthique de la recherche et du développement des nouvelles technologies - Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal (Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada), University Health Network Research Ethics Board (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), Comité d’Éthique de CHU de Lyon (Hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France), Instutional Ethics Committee of the Frontier Lifeline Hospital (IEC - FLLH) (Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai, India), Il Comitato Etico dell’Ospedale San Raffaele Milano (IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy), Instutional Review Board of Chiba Cardiovascular Center (Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan), Research Ethics Committee Of the University of Malta (University of Malta, Msida, Malta), Regionale komiteer for medisinsk og helsefaglig forskningsetikk - Oslo universitetssykehus (Oslo University Hospital – Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway), Regionala etikprövningsnämnden i Göteborg (Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg, Sweden), Kantonale Ethikkommission Bern (Swiss Ethics, Bern, Switzerland), National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) Research Ethics Committee (REC) (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan), Institutional Review Board of Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Med Center (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States), Institutional Review Board of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States), Institutional Review Board of the University of Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States), Institutional Review Board of Nebraska’s Health Science Center (University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States), The Washington University in St. Louis Institutional Review Board (Washington University, Saint-Louis, MO, United States) and Institutional Review Board of Stanford University (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States). In the Netherlands, ethics approval from the IRB was not required for survey research according to national regulations [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed]. The approval letters are available from the corresponding author upon request.
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: All authors declare to have no conflicts of interest regarding this manuscript.