Cabral, Luís http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6820-5251
Afreixo, Vera
Meireles, Rita
Vaz, Miguel
Chaves, Catarina
Caetano, Marisa
Almeida, Luís
Paiva, José Artur
Article History
Received: 31 October 2017
Accepted: 6 March 2018
First Online: 31 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Being a retrospective observational study of patients from an anonymized dataset, involving only recording data from the medical record, the Ethics Committee from Coimbra University Hospital Centre (CHUC) waived the need of informed consent according to the Declaration of Helsinki and the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) International Ethics Guidelines.
: As all data was anonymized, this study does not contain any individual person’s data in any form (including individual details, images, or videos) and accordingly consent for publication was waived.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.