246 CHAPTER 3.2 Ethics approval This study was approved by the independent research ethics committees at each site (lead ethics committee: Cantonal Ethics Committee Bern, Switzerland, ID 201601200; Medical Research Ethics Committee Utrecht, Netherlands, ID 15-522/D; Comité d’Ethique Hospitalo-Facultaire Saint-Luc-UCL: 2016/20JUL/347–Belgian registration No: B403201629175; Cork University Teaching Hospitals Clinical Ethics Committee, Cork, Republic of Ireland; ID ECM 4 (o) 07/02/17), and Swissmedic as responsible regulatory authority. Funding This work is part of the project OPERAM: OPtimising thERapy to prevent Avoidable hospital admissions in the Multimorbid elderly supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 634238, and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 15.0137. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Commission and the Swiss government. This project was also partially funded by the Swiss National Scientific Foundation (SNSF 320030_188549). The funder of the study had no role in the study design; data collection, analysis, and interpretation; or writing of the report. MR and ST had full access to all the data in the study, and all authors had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02986425.
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