Al-Hamdani, Ali http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5562-2737
Rasmussen, Jeppe V.
Holtz, Kenneth
Olsen, Bo S.
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Accepted: 14 May 2020
First Online: 8 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study has been approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark (Jr. no.: H-19035590). The processing of personal data has been approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (Jr. no. P-2019-246). All patients will receive oral and written information before they are asked to sign an informed consent form. If the patients agree to participate, they will then be asked to sign the informed consent form. They will also receive a folder with patient participant information and “Participants’ rights in a health science research project” folder. The participating patients can withdraw their consent at any time. The Study will follow the Helsinki Declaration. All patients included in the study are covered by the insurance policies that apply to ordinary treatment in the hospital, and they may complain and receive compensation following the rules in the Act on Complaints and Compensation in the Health Services in Denmark.The standard treatment at our department includes preoperative planning with plain radiographs and CT of the injured elbow joint and follow-up examinations with plain radiographs postoperatively and at 3 months. In addition to this standard treatment, the participating patients will have additional clinical radiographic examinations, including plain radiographs at 1, 2, 5, and 10 years. The extra radiation dosage from this study is 0.0116 mSv, which corresponds to the background radiation during approximately one and a half days.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.