van den Bemt, Lisette http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3771-8273
van den Nieuwenhof, Lotte
Rutjes, Anne
van der Meer, Victor
Stege, Gerben
Wensing, Michel
Teichert, Martina
Schermer, Tjard http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1391-2995
Funding for this research was provided by:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Novartis
Article History
Received: 28 November 2019
Accepted: 28 July 2020
First Online: 9 October 2020
Competing interests
: M.T. received an unconditional research grant from AstraZeneca, which was not related to this study. T.S. has received commission to advise Boehringer Ingelheim in developing an intervention to support GPs in withdrawing ICS in their COPD patients (not this trial). All other authors have no competing interests.