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Received: 6 December 2017

Accepted: 19 October 2018

First Online: 17 November 2018

Authors’ information

: DE has a master in communications and is currently a medical student in his master phase at the University of Amsterdam – Academic Medical Centre.MAMS is a medical student in his master phase at the University of Amsterdam – Academic Medical Centre.GAK is a medical student in his master phase at the University of Amsterdam – Academic Medical Centre.AK is a professor in social epidemiology and head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Amsterdam – Academic Medical Centre.RV is programme leader “Big Data & Learning health systems” at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL).KH is postdoctorate researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL).

: Dutch law allows the use of electronic health records for research purposes under certain conditions. According to the legislation, neither obtaining informed consent from patients nor approval by a medical ethics committee is obligatory for this type of observational studies containing no directly identifiable data []. This study has been approved by the applicable governance bodies of NIVEL Primary Care Database under number NZR-00315.025.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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