Jansen, Tessa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2948-0533
Gouwens, Sigur http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7515-5638
Meijerink, Lotta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1511-6781
Meulman, Iris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-1810
Kouwenberg, Lisanne H. J. A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7027-8249
de Wit, G. Ardine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1375-7657
Polder, Johan J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3231-2178
Kunst, Anton E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3313-5273
Uiters, Ellen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4404-2117
Article History
Received: 13 April 2023
Accepted: 8 February 2024
First Online: 6 March 2024
Declarations
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: No patients and general public were involved in this study.All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. This study does not fall within the scope of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act and therefore does not require ethical approval. Dutch law allows the use of electronic health record data for research purposes under certain conditions. According to Dutch legislation and under certain conditions, neither obtaining informed consent nor approval by a medical ethics committee is obligatory for this kind of observational studies (Dutch Civil Law (BW), Article 7:458, ExternalRef removed; Medical Research Involving Human Subject Act (WMO), ExternalRef removed; and General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) Article 24 (GDPR)).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.