A multi-state model analysis of the time from ethical approval to publication of clinical research studies

• Anette Blümle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bluemle@ifem.uni-freiburg.de

  Affiliation Institute for Evidence in Medicine (for Cochrane Germany Foundation), Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2877-1029

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• Tobias Haag,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• James Balmford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Gerta Rücker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Martin Schumacher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Nadine Binder

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Digitalization in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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