van Oijen, Jacqueline C. F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-0671
van Dongen-Leunis, Annemieke
Postma, Jeroen
van Leeuwen, Thed
Bal, Roland
Funding for this research was provided by:
ZonMw (80-84200-98-14001)
Article History
Received: 31 December 2022
Accepted: 31 May 2024
First Online: 25 June 2024
Declarations
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: Not applicable; at the time we were conducting the research, ethical approval was not required. Nowadays our facility has an Ethics Committee that assesses research proposals involving human subjects (including interview studies), but this was not the case then. This study is not subject to the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO); it concerns collaboration on medical research in TopCare non-academic hospitals. For research not subject to the WMO, local policy and applicable procedures apply; as the TopCare program began in 2014, there were, as yet, no institutional rules in this area.
: Member check is part of our policy of informed consent of respondents and consent for publication. Specifically, we gave respondents the opportunity to peruse and add to quotes from their semi-structured interviews and to confirm our interpretation. The focus was on confirming and amending the quote and verifying the interpretation. The research team discussed the feedback received from the respondents and weighed it against the context of data analysis. Any disagreement on a respondent’s feedback was discussed directly with the respondent until consensus was reached. The STZ and NFU have given permission to use the data collected by CWTS on behalf of the NFU and STZ for the bibliometric analysis of this study. They have taken note of the results of this study and agreed to its publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.