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Article History

Received: 6 April 2023

Accepted: 3 October 2024

First Online: 21 October 2024

Declarations

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: In Belgium, as the SGP network as a whole was approved by the Ethical Committees of the Scientific Society of Flemish GPs and the Catholic University of Louvain, no specific ethics approval was required for this survey. Authorisation was received by the Social Security and Health Sectoral Committee (deliberation No 17/065 of 18 July 2017, amended on 20 March 2020 and 1 September 2020). The English questionnaire version was approved by the University of Malta Research and Ethics Committee (ID: MED-2022-0011). All methods were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (Declaration of Helsinki). A data transfer agreement (DTA) between the University of Malta and Sciensano was approved (UM Ref: 2022 189 UM SCNO). This study was conducted in agreement with country-specific regulations on privacy and data collection and treatment. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants (i.e. GPs) involved in the study. An email was sent to all Belgian and Maltese GPs with information on this study and informed consent was received by submitting the questionnaire. Only anonymous data were collected.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.