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Alignment between the patient’s cancer worry and the GP’s cancer suspicion and the association with the interval between first symptom presentation and referral: a cross-sectional study in Denmark

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01480-2

Published Online: 2021-06-24

Published Print: 2021-12

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Authors

Virgilsen, Line Flytkjær

Pedersen, Anette Fischer

Vedsted, Peter

Petersen, Gitte Stentebjerg

Jensen, Henry
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Article History

Received: 17 March 2021

Accepted: 4 June 2021

First Online: 24 June 2021

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: The project is registered in the Record of Processing Activities at the Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the EU [CitationRef removed] and the Danish Data Protection Act (Act No. 502 of 23 May 2018) [CitationRef removed]. Patients diagnosed in 2016 gave written consent for us to collect data from their registered GP. For patients diagnosed in 2010, the Danish Health Board gave us permission to obtain data from their registered GP without patient consent in accordance with the Danish Health Act. Approval by the Committee on Health Research Ethics in the Central Denmark Region was not required [CitationRef removed] as the data was based solely on registry and questionnaire data. The reporting of the study followed the STROBE guidelines.

: Not applicable for the 2010 cohort. The patient consent obtained for the 2016 cohort included consent for publication.

: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interests.

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