Grand-Guillaume-Perrenoud, Jean Anthony
Geese, Franziska
Uhlmann, Katja
Blasimann, Angela
Wagner, Felicitas L.
Neubauer, Florian B.
Huwendiek, Sören
Hahn, Sabine
Schmitt, Kai-Uwe
Article History
Received: 15 November 2021
Accepted: 5 January 2023
First Online: 25 January 2023
Declarations
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: The project was submitted to the cantonal ethics committees of Bern, Ticino, and Vaud for review and was found to not require ethical approval (BASEC-No.: Req-2019–00731), as the study does not fall within the scope of the Swiss Federal Human Research Act (SR 810.30). Written informed consent was obtained from patients at admission to use their survey data for research purposes. In addition, when approached by survey staff prior to patient survey data collection, patients were verbally informed of the study objectives and their right to decline to participate and discontinue at any time. All procedures followed prescribed ethical guidelines and regulations.
: Consent for publication is not applicable to this study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.