Emergency department utilisation and treatment for trauma-related presentations of adolescents aged 16-18: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study has been accepted and approved by the local (Bern, Switzerland) ethics committee, and informed consent was waived (No 2022 − 00454). No individual informed consent was obtained.This is because only retrospective patient health data was used for the study. Therefore, individual patient consent is not required, as confirmed by the ethics committee. Patients at our university hospital, from which the data originate, give their consent to the use of the data as part of the general consent. In accordance with the ethics committee’s policy, individuals who have refused or withdrawn their general consent in writing will be excluded from the study. Consent for publicationNot Applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

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