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Article History

Received: 27 May 2022

Accepted: 25 October 2022

First Online: 30 November 2022

Declarations

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: The local ethics committee in Switzerland (Kantonale Ethikkommission Bern) approved the study protocol in January 2022 for Part A and B (Project-ID 2022–00035). This research project will be conducted in accordance with the protocol, the Declaration of Helsinki [CitationRef removed], the principles of Good Clinical Practice, the Human Research Act (HRA) [CitationRef removed] and the Human Research Ordinance (HRO) [CitationRef removed] as well as other locally relevant regulations in the participating countries. In addition, for Part A, in order to respect privacy rights under the European regulation, the requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be fulfilled by anonymization and/or data source protection. Patients from Part A give their informed consent by replying to the question “by clicking yes here, I agree to participate in this study”. If they click “no”, they cannot participate in the study. Patients from Part B will provide written informed consent before completing the study questionnaire. All sites will also adhere to all local and national ethical guidelines for conducting research and apply for ethical approval, if necessary.The results of this study will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and the doctoral thesis of the first author. We also aim to diffuse our results in journals commonly read by GPs (for instance, the Swiss journal <i>Primary and Hospital Care</i>) to enable knowledge transfer.

: Not applicable.

: The authors do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.