Grøsland, Mari
Larsen, Vilde Bergstad
Telle, Kjetil
Gjefsen, Hege Marie
Article History
Received: 5 April 2022
Accepted: 7 September 2022
First Online: 21 September 2022
Declarations
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: The establishment of an emergency preparedness register forms part of the legally mandated responsibilities of The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) during epidemics. The legal basis is the Norwegian Health Preparedness Act §2-4. Institutional board review was conducted by The Ethics Committee of South-East Norway, and the committee confirmed (June 4th, 2020, #153204) that external ethical board review was not required.We did not obtain verbal or written consent from the study population because the current study was based on routinely collected and anonymized register data. The law regulating official statistics in Norway implies that anonymized register data can be used for research. The law of statistics combined with the Ethics Committee of South-East Norway thus confirmed that informed consent was not necessary. Authors only get access to the data needed from the BEREDT C19 database, and not the entire database or full data sources (data minimization). There is strict access control to the register, performed by the project leader and steering group of BEREDT C19.All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (Declaration of Helsinki).
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.