Associations between self-care advice and healing time in patients with venous leg ulcer- a Swedish registry-based study.

"Declarations Ethical declarationsThe Swedish Ethical Review Authority has approved the realization of the present study (nr 2020 − 00965), according to the Swedish law on research [48]. The approval enabled data extraction from the quality registry. Data without social security numbers or names was retrieved from the registry after approval by the Uppsala Clinical Research Center. The Helsinki Declaration was a guideline throughout the work of this study, among other things regarding the storage of patient data and confidentiality [49]. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Participants were informed on the storage of data in the RUT and the potential use of data in quality development and research. Registration in RUT is governed by Swedish law, including the Publicity and Privacy Act (2009:400) [50], the Swedish Act with supplementary provisions to the EU’s Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (2018:218) [51], and the Patient Data Act, Chap. 7 (2008:355) [52]. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study has been made possible by generous contributions of The Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity (ref. 20190132). Open access funding provided by Linnaeus University."