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Article History

Received: 6 November 2017

Accepted: 31 March 2019

First Online: 26 April 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval has been obtained by CLER, Local Research Ethic Committee of the University Hospital Center of Montpellier (Reference number 2017_CLER-MPT-10-01). General practitioners and specialists offered their patients undergoing corticosteroid therapy to participate in a study concerning their treatment. If they agreed to participate, they were referred to the investigator. The verbal patient consent was collected, as validated by the CLER and specified in the Jarde law in France for qualitative studies [CitationRef removed], at the beginning of each interview We informed each participant about the need of a vocal record to achieve an accurate transcript of the interview by this sentence: “If you agree, the interview will be recorded, but it remains completely confidential and anonymous.” As specified in the interview guide in Additional file InternalRef removed.

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