About the Authors
- Harald Schrem
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Contributed equally to this work with: Harald Schrem, Valentin Schneider
* E-mail: schrem.harald@mh-hannover.de
Affiliations General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Valentin Schneider
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Contributed equally to this work with: Harald Schrem, Valentin Schneider
Affiliation Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Marlene Kurok
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Affiliations Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Gynecology and Obstetrics, KRH Klinikum Nordstadt, Hannover, Germany
- Alon Goldis
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Affiliations Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
- Maren Dreier
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Alexander Kaltenborn
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Affiliations Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Federal Armed Forces Hospital Westerstede, Medical Service of the Federal Armed Forces, Westerstede, Germany
- Wilfried Gwinner
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Affiliation Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Marc Barthold
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Affiliation Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Jan Liebeneiner
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Affiliation Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Markus Winny
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Affiliation General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Jürgen Klempnauer
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Affiliation General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Moritz Kleine
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Affiliations General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors of this manuscript have no competing interest to disclose. Author AG contributed his work in the context of a consultancy agreement on quality management methodology financed within the framework of the grant agreement between authors HS and MB and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (reference number: 01EO1302). This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Patents, products in development, or marketed products do not play any role in this study.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HS VS M. Kleine. Performed the experiments: VS M. Kurok AK. Analyzed the data: HS VS M. Kurok AG MD AK WG MB JL MW JK M. Kleine. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Kurok AG MD. Wrote the paper: HS VS.