de Vries, Esther http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1258-9989
Bakker, Elisabeth http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3359-9588
Monster, Taco B. M.
Denig, Petra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7929-4739
Mol, Peter G. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4262-3180
Article History
Accepted: 15 August 2022
First Online: 15 September 2022
Declarations
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: Informed consent was obtained from all individual respondents included in the study.
: Consent for publication was not required since all responses were anonymous.
: Study conception and design of the survey were performed by Esther de Vries, Elisabeth Bakker, Petra Denig and Peter G.M. Mol. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Esther de Vries, Taco B.M. Monster, Petra Denig and Peter G.M. Mol. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Esther de Vries and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
: Prior to the commencement of this study, details of the research were entered into the University Medical Center Groningen’s Research Register (UTOPIA study number 201900103) and it was determined that the study did not fall within the reach of the Dutch research involving human subjects act (WMO) and ethics approval was thus not required for the study. For this non-WMO study, the METc will not conduct any further assessment. Written informed consent was collected from all respondents in the focus groups and respondents in the survey.
: Petra Denig and Elisabeth Bakker have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this study. Esther de Vries, Taco B.M. Monster, and Peter G.M. Mol are (part-time) employees of the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board. Any opinions, conclusions and proposals in the text are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board.
: No specific funding for this study was obtained. Esther de Vries is performing a part-time PhD study program that is supported by the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The code used when analyzing the data of the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.