Barco, Stefano http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2618-347X
Bingisser, Roland
Colucci, Giuseppe
Frenk, André
Gerber, Bernhard
Held, Ulrike
Mach, Francois
Mazzolai, Lucia
Righini, Marc
Rosemann, Thomas
Sebastian, Tim
Spescha, Rebecca
Stortecky, Stefan
Windecker, Stephan
Kucher, Nils
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (198352 (Nils Kucher, Stefano Barco))
Article History
Received: 7 August 2020
Accepted: 12 August 2020
First Online: 9 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The central ethical committee (cantonal ethic committee Zurich) approved the study on May 28, 2020 (BASEC-No.: 2020-01157) after the initial submission on April 15, 2020. The authors received approval for the centres in Basel, Bern and Geneva. On June 4, 2020, the ethical commission approved the remaining centres, Lausanne, Lugano and Bellinzona. The authors certify that this trial has received ethical approval from the appropriate ethical committee as described above. All eligible patients receive written information about the study before giving their written informed consent to participate in the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests for the present work.