From the *Department of OR/Clinical Surgical Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen; †Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, ‡Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam; §Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht; ∥Department of Surgery, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen; and ¶Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Received for publication July 4, 2013; accepted January 12, 2014.
Reprints: Hjalmar C. van Santvoort, MD, PhD, Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, HP G04.228, PO box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, the Netherlands (e-mail: [email protected]).
Sandra van Brunschot is sponsored by the Dutch Maag Lever Darm Stichting and Fonds NutsOhra to perform clinical studies on necrotizing pancreatitis. The sponsors had no involvement in any stage of the study design, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of the study results. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Author Contributions: Study design: SvB, HvS, MGB, and MAB. Literature search and study selection: SvB and AJS. Analysis plan design and statistical analysis: SvB, AJS, and HvS. Drafting of the article: SvB. Data access and responsible for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis: SvB and AJS. Correction and approval of the final article: All authors.
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