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Article History

Received: 3 November 2020

Accepted: 8 July 2021

First Online: 28 August 2021

Declarations

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: Ethics approval was granted by the University of Wollongong Human Research Ethics Committee (approval: 2019/367). All participating GPs, along with their practice must provide written informed consent. The practice of each participating GP will have accessible information and procedures to allow patients to opt out of the use of their de-identified clinical data for research purposes if they choose.

: Not applicable

: The industry partner (Medcast Pty Ltd.) will design and implement the education intervention, with input from UOW, and require access to some identifiable data in order to do so. There is a duality of interest arising from the commercial potential of the outcome for Medcast. This duality of interest will be managed in the following manner: Clin A/Prof Stephen Barnett will be included as a named investigator and responsible for ethical conduct at the Medcast site. All outcome data other than quiz/case scenario data will be collected independently of, and inaccessible, to Medcast; UOW will be solely responsible for quantitative and qualitative data analysis and interpretation. Medcast will not be involved in any data analysis. Medcast will contribute to the study design, recruitment, intervention and quiz/case scenario data collection. Medcast will contribute to reports and publications arising from the study in relation to those aspects of the study only.