Transition after pediatric liver transplantation - Perceptions of adults, adolescents and parents
Norman Junge, Katarina Migal, Imeke Goldschmidt, Ulrich Baumann, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Author contributions: Junge N designed, performed and coordinated the research, analyzed and interpreted the data and wrote the initial manuscript; Migal K contributed to the data acquisition and performed statistical analysis of the data; Goldschmidt I critically revised the manuscript and contributed important intellectual content; Baumann U supervised the conception, design and analysis of the study and critically revised the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Hannover Medical School Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: Patients and Parents received an information letter with the questionnaire. The also informed them about the scientific analysis that would be performed on provided responses. The patients and parents have responded freely to the questionnaire. As a result of an anonymous analysis of clinical data, Patients and Parents were not required to provide informed consent to participate in the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: We have no conflict of interest or financial relationship related to the disclosure.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Norman Junge, MD, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hannover Medical School, Carl- Neuberg-Str 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany. junge.norman@mh-hannover.de
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Received: November 22, 2016
Peer-review started: November 25, 2016
First decision: December 19, 2016
Revised: January 18, 2017
Accepted: March 15, 2017
Article in press: March 15, 2017
Published online: April 7, 2017
