Funding for this research was provided by:
AOK Baden-Württemberg (000)
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Article History
Received: 26 June 2020
Accepted: 21 December 2020
First Online: 14 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was provided by the Heidelberg University Hospital Ethics Committee (No. S-359/2013). All patients and physicians provided written informed consent for participation in the programme. Patients and physicians in the control cohort were extracted from an anonymised database of claims data.
: Not applicable.
: Joachim Szecsenyi holds stocks in the AQUA-Institute, which provides services to AOK Baden-Wuerttemberg. Other authors have no competing interests.