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Ethics approval was exempt for the present study because no data collection was required.
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No ethics approval was required because no primary data collection was done.
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Because our data collection was completed in 1993-1995 followed by biochemical assays, our current data analysis was limited to previously assayed biomarkers.
According to Dutch policy, the study did not require a review by an ethics committee because the data collection was anonymous with regard to the participants and the content of the interviews was not considered to be possibly incriminating.
Another potential limitation of this study is the unavailability of information regarding albuminuria because the data collection was initiated at a time when albuminuria was not yet required as a primary workup test in all outpatients.
According to Dutch policy, the study did not require review by an ethics committee because the data collection was anonymous with regard to the deceased patient and the attending physician.
According to Dutch policy, the study did not require review by an ethics committee or written informed consent from the patients' families, because the data collection was anonymous with respect to the deceased patient.
Even though 14 nursing homes agreed to participate in the study, and no participants reclined, only a relatively small number of participants were enrolled, because data collection was time consuming and demanded careful planning.
Twenty-two cases were excluded from the final analysis because data collection was incomplete.
The latter may be because data collection was predominantly performed by study staff rather than patients.
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