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Accepted: 7 March 2024

First Online: 7 May 2024

Declarations

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: Open access funding provided by Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna within the CRUI-CARE Agreement.

: Gianmario Candore and Katrin Manlik are full-time employees at Bayer AG. Olivia Mahaux and Andrew Bate are full-time employees at GSK and own GSK restricted shares. Manfred Hauben was a full-time employee at Pfizer when the Delphi was conducted and owns stock/stock options in pharmaceutical companies that may manufacture/market drugs mentioned in this paper. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest specific for this research.

: The Research Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Bordeaux have certified that the study does not need to be submitted to a Research Ethics Committee according to French regulations.

: Not applicable.

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: Additional data have been made available in the electronic supplementary material of the present paper and its companion article [].

: Not applicable.

: The study was preregistered on the EQUATOR registry, and the protocol was made available at .

: MF, CK, ER, and FS conceptualized and designed the study and developed the methodology. MF synthetized all answers at each step. CK wrote the original draft. All the authors participated in the Delphi and contributed to the interpretation of results and to the review and editing of the draft. All the authors read and approved the final version.

: Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of their organizations.