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Arnold, Christine http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4201-1800
Hennrich, Patrick
Koetsenruijter, Jan
van Lieshout, Jan
Peters-Klimm, Frank
Wensing, Michel
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (416396249)
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Article History
Received: 18 June 2020
Accepted: 20 July 2020
First Online: 16 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study received a positive vote from the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg (ID: S-726/2018) and from the respective state’s Landesärztekammer (state authorisation association for medical issues). The Ethics Committee has given its approval for the conduct of the study. Depending on the state, an additional approval from the respective Landesärztekammer is required for conducting the patient survey. The additional approval has already been obtained for Baden-Württemberg. In Rhineland-Palatinate it is not required for this study and in Saarland it will be obtained as soon as there are sufficient practices participating, enabling us to conduct the patient survey there.All participants will be informed in detail about the study and will only be included in the study voluntarily and, where necessary, after giving informed written consent. The collection and analysis of patients’ questionnaires, cardiologists’ questionnaires and claims data will be anonymous. In these cases, no informed consent is necessary.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
