Paridaens, Rico
Vaes, Bert
Van den Bulck, Steve
Soetaert, Justine
Article History
Received: 4 May 2024
Accepted: 28 October 2024
First Online: 20 December 2024
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was granted by the Research Ethics Committee UZ/KU Leuven (MP018709, Supplementary Material 2 and 3). All data extracted from electronic medical records of general practitioners were stored pseudonymized in the INTEGO database with strict security regulations under supervision of Healthstat, and followed national privacy legislation. INTEGO is approved by the Informatie Veligheidscomité in Belgium (IVC/KSZG/23/424, Supplementary Material 1). Patient specific data was analysed inside the Healthstat environment by the main researcher (Rico Paridaens) and only anonymised practice data was extracted for further analysis on a local computer using SPSS. There was no patient or public involvement in this study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.