Muizelaar, Hielke
Haas, Marcel
van Dortmont, Koert
van der Putten, Peter
Spruit, Marco
Article History
Received: 3 January 2024
Accepted: 28 May 2024
First Online: 3 June 2024
Declarations
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: The Science Bureau of the Haga Teaching Hospital on 16 January 2024 confirmed with reference number 20240116 that the manuscript “Extracting Patient Lifestyle Characteristics from Dutch Clinical Text with BERT Models” does not fall under the scope of the Dutch law on Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (Dutch abbreviation: WMO). Therefore, this manuscript is confirmed to be exempt from review by the Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC). This study was conducted according to the scientific policy of the Haga Teaching hospital. Exemption from the Dutch law on Medical Research Involving Human Subjects indicates that patient consent is waived for the respective manuscript, as patients are not actively involved []. The clinical notes analysed in this study were extracted from the CTCue platform, on which HagaZiekenhuis’ patient data is hosted. Patient data were pseudominised and anonymised such that users comply with privacy rules and legislation set out in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) []. See (webpage in Dutch) on more information on the de-identification process. No further patient data were included in this research.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.