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Benchmarks for low back pain in general practice in Flanders: electronic audit of INTEGO

Published Online: 2024-12-20

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Paridaens, Rico

Vaes, Bert

Van den Bulck, Steve

Soetaert, Justine
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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.

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