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Accepted: 15 February 2021

First Online: 16 April 2021

Declarations

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: The HEcoPerMed project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824997.

: Heleen Vellekoop, Simone Huygens, Matthijs Versteegh, László Szilberhorn, Tamás Zelei, Balázs Nagy, Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Sarah Wordsworth and Maureen Rutten-van Mölken have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

: According to the Dutch Law on Medical Scientific Research (WMO), this study did not require approval by a medical ethics committee.

: All interviewed experts consented to participation in the study.

: All interviewed experts consented to their statements being incorporated in the study's findings in an anonymised manner.

: No programming was used in this study.

: Various data items are made available through the supplementary files, including the search strategies used for the systematic literature review; the studies identified through both of our literature searches; the interview template for the expert interviews and summarised responses from the expert interviews. The Excel file used for the data extraction during the systematic literature review can be made available upon request.

: MV and MR outlined the concept and broad methods for this study. HV, SH, MV and MR conducted the two literature reviews and the expert interviews. HV, SH, MV and MR developed the first set of recommendations, which was critically revised by all authors. LS, TZ and BN organised the stakeholder workshop. HV wrote the manuscript. All authors provided multiple rounds of critical feedback.