Birke, Gunnar
Wolf, Silke
Ingwersen, Thies
Bartling, Christian
Bender, Gabriele
Meyer, Alfons
Nolte, Achim
Ottes, Katharina
Pade, Oliver
Peller, Martin
Steinmetz, Jochen
Gerloff, Christian
Thomalla, Götz
Article History
Received: 6 February 2020
Accepted: 11 March 2020
First Online: 6 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study is carried out following the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association and according to the principles of good clinical and good scientific practice. Study participation is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time. Written informed consent will be obtained prior to participation, if applicable. Patients will be fully informed about aims, procedures, data collection and the use of collected data in this study. Rejecting participation has no negative consequences for patients. No foreseeable risk results from participating. No compassionate use is carried out. No invasive intervention is conducted. This study is registered at clinicaltrial.gov (NCT04119479). Principles of data protection will be kept. Approval of the local ethics committee (ethical boards of the medical associations Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen) has been obtained (Approval: PV5483). The results of this study will be disseminated via peer-reviewed journals. Deviations from protocol, i.e. inclusion, recruitment and procedure will be discussed.
: Not applicable.
: GBi, SW, TI, CB, Gbe, AM, AN, KO, OP, MP, JS have no conflict of interest. CG reports personal fees from Amgen, Bayer Vital, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi Aventis, Abbott, and Prediction Biosciences outside the submitted work. GT reports receiving consulting fees from Acandis, grant support, and lecture fees from Bayer, lecture fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, and Daiichi Sankyo, and consulting fees and lecture fees from Stryker outside the submitted work.