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Article History

Received: 5 June 2023

Accepted: 28 September 2023

First Online: 13 October 2023

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

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: The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are owned by the German statutory health insurance AOK. Since public deposition of the data would breach ethical and legal compliance, data are only available upon formal request from the research institute of the AOK (WIdO). To request the data, please contact the institutional body of the WIdO (wido@wido.bv.aok.de). To fulfill the legal requirements to obtain that kind of data, researchers must obtain a permission for a specific research question from the German Federal (Social) Insurance Office. Additionally, researchers must conclude a contract with the statutory health insurance regarding data access, which can be requested from the “AOK-Bundesverband GbR” (Federal Association of Local Health Insurance Funds) under . The licensee is permitted to use the data for the purpose of the research proposal within their company, exclusively. Thereby, a company is defined as an economical unit. Licensees are not allowed to pass the data to a third party, or to create software or databases with the exception of scientific publications. Moreover, the study has to be approved by the data protection officer both at the statutory health insurance and the research institute.