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Article History

Received: 7 March 2023

Accepted: 23 May 2024

First Online: 9 October 2024

Declarations

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: Ethics approval and informed consent from patients to participate are unnecessary according to national French law for the analysis of retrospective data ("loi Jardé", 2012–300 of 5 March 2012 relating to research on human subjects, amended in 2016 by ordinance 2016–800 of 16 June 2016). The data were anonymised and reconstructed by combining two anonymised sources to ensure that anonymity was maintained. These are the basic data on health care consumption for the Midi-Pyrénées region. This study conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The authors obtained agreement with the accession of the French National Institute of Health Data (INDS) and permission from the ‘Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertes’ (CNIL), which is the French Data Protection Authority in accordance with Law No 78/17 of 6 January 1978 on computing, files and personal information, article 54, paragraph I. CNIL authorisation: no. 1634837.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.