Schüttig, Wiebke
Flemming, Ronja
Mosler, Christiane Höhling
Leve, Verena
Reddemann, Olaf
Schultz, Annemarie
Brua, Emmanuelle
Brittner, Matthias
Meyer, Frank
Pollmanns, Johannes
Martin, Johnannes
Czihal, Thomas
von Stillfried, Dominik
Wilm, Stefan
Sundmacher, Leonie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Technische Universität München
Article History
Received: 17 December 2021
Accepted: 13 July 2022
First Online: 9 August 2022
Declarations
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: The ACD study was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of Düsseldorf Medical School (granted 2017/09/22). Our application to use administrative data for the ACD study was granted by the regulatory authorities of the Regional Association of SHI Physicians in North Rhine (State Ministry of Employment, Health and Social Affairs in North Rhine Westphalia, granted 2017/11/21), Westphalia Lip (State Ministry of Employment, Health and Social Affairs in North Rhine Westphalia, granted 2017/11/21), the Hamburg Senate for Health and Consumer Protection (granted 2018/02/15) and Schleswig Holstein (State Ministry of Health, Youth, Families and Seniors in Schleswig Holstein, granted 2017/09/29)), as well as by AOK Rhineland/Hamburg and AOK North West (Ministry of Employment, Health and Social Affairs in North Rhine Westphalia, granted 2017/10/24), and the Techniker Krankenkasse (Federal Office for Social Security, granted 2017/09/22). The state ministries are the responsible regulatory authorities in the states. The Techniker Krankenkasse, which provides statutory insurance on a nationwide basis, is supervised by the Federal Office for Social Security.In accordance with Section 75 and Section 67b of Book X of the German Code of Social Law (§67b and §75 SGB X) the regulatory authorities, named above, confirmed that patients and office-based physicians do not need to be asked for written, informed consent in order for administrative data to be used for the ACD study. This is because the data were two-way pseudonymised. We confirm that all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations for analyzing routine data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.