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Article History

Received: 22 June 2017

Accepted: 17 September 2018

First Online: 27 September 2018

Authors’ information

: Mairead Murphy: University of Bristol, MM is the primary investigator and corresponding author for this study, which was done as a phase in her PhD submitted in 2016: Developing a patient-reported outcome measure for primary care.Chris Salisbury: University of Bristol, CS is a professor of primary care, prior head of the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol and was a supervisor of MM’s PhD.Sandra Hollinghurst: University of Bristol, SH is a senior lecturer in health economics at CAPC University of Bristol and was supervisor of MM’s PhD.

: The study received ethical approval from the committee of Nottingham 1 National Research Ethics Service, ref. 13/EM/0197. Patients gave written informed consent prior to interview.

: The signed patient consent forms included a statement that the patients agreed to their interviews to be used in published work, including anonymised quotations.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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