Pirhonen, Laura
Bolin, Kristian
Olofsson, Elisabeth Hansson
Fors, Andreas
Ekman, Inger
Swedberg, Karl
Gyllensten, Hanna
Article History
First Online: 1 March 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This work was supported by the Centre for Person-Centred Care at the University of Gothenburg (GPCC), Sweden. GPCC is funded by the Swedish Government’s grant for Strategic Research Areas, Care Sciences (no. 2009-1088) and co-funded by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Swedish Research Council (reference number 521-2013-2723), the Swedish agreement between the government and the county councils concerning economic support for providing an infrastructure for research and education of doctors (ALFGBG-444681); and Research and Development Unit, Primary Health Care, Region Västra Götaland also contributed to the funding of the study.
: Laura Pirhonen, Kristian Bolin, Elisabeth Hansson-Olofsson, Andreas Fors, Inger Ekman, Karl Swedberg and Hanna Gyllensten declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The Regional Ethical Review Board in Gothenburg has approved the clinical study. The study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki. This clinical trial is registered at Researchweb (ID 65791).
: The randomisation was based on a computer-generated list, stratified for hospital site and employment status. Before randomisation, each patient gave their informed consent to participate, and patients were informed of the possibility to withdraw from the study at any time.