Krug, Katja http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9795-7954
Ballhausen, René Alexander
Bölter, Regine
Engeser, Peter
Wensing, Michel
Szecsenyi, Joachim
Peters-Klimm, Frank
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01GX1046)
Article History
Received: 17 November 2017
Accepted: 2 July 2018
First Online: 13 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Medical Professional Codex of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (2007) and the Helsinki Declaration as of 2008. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Heidelberg in May 2011 (approval number S-042/2011) with an unrestricted positive vote. All participants provided written informed consent before conducting the focus group discussions. We confirm all patient/personal identifiers have been removed or disguised so the patient/person (s) described are not identifiable and cannot be identified through the details of the story.
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