Dohmen, Marc http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-7784
Petermann-Meyer, Andrea
Blei, Daniel
Bremen, Rebecca
Brock-Midding, Evamarie
Brüne, Manuela
Geiser, Franziska
Haastert, Burkhard
Halbach, Sarah Maria
Heuser, Christian
Holsteg, Steffen
Heier, Lina
Icks, Andrea
Karger, Andre
Montalbo, Joseph
Nakata, Hannah
Panse, Jens
Rottmann, Till-Philip
Sättler, Kristina
Viehmann, Anja
Vomhof, Markus
Ernstmann, Nicole
Brümmendorf, Tim H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovations fund of the Federal Joint Committee (01NVF17043)
RWTH Aachen University
Article History
Received: 6 April 2021
Accepted: 27 August 2021
First Online: 15 September 2021
Declarations
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: Family-SCOUT has been approved by the leading Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the RWTH Aachen University on September 26, 2018 (EK 195/18). Approval from all other involved local Ethical Committees was subsequently requested and obtained. Family-SCOUT will be conducted in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, as well as the general principles set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki, §15 of the German Medical Association’s professional code of conduct ‘Berufsordnung für Ärzte, BOÄ’, and the applicable data protection law. Patients and family members will give written informed consent. Participation is voluntary.
: The study results will be reported in a public registry, and articles addressing the primary and secondary outcome parameters will be published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, the data will be presented at (inter)national congresses and symposia. In addition, the funder Federal Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss) will also publish an open-access results report.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.