Haas, Romi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9100-5509
Gorelik, Alexandra http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1032-0457
Busija, Ljoudmila http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9089
O’Connor, Denise http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6836-122X
Pearce, Christopher http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5371-8196
Mazza, Danielle http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6158-7376
Buchbinder, Rachelle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0597-0933
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1113532, TRIP fellowship, APP1113532)
Arthritis Australia (Not applicable, Not applicable, Not applicable, Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 30 May 2022
Accepted: 6 January 2023
First Online: 4 February 2023
Declarations
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: This study was reviewed and approved by the Cabrini Human Research Ethics Committee and Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (Reference Numbers 02–21-01–19 and 16975, respectively) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. We did not obtain participant consent as all data were anonymised. Outcome Health holds a standing ethics approval for its collection and custodianship of the deidentified data from the Royal Australian College of General Practice. Outcome Health and the individual PHNs granted permission to access the data used in this study.
: Not applicable.
: RH, DOC, RB and DM report grants from Arthritis Australia (not-for-profit organisation), during the conduct of the study. CP is an employee of Outcome Health, the not-for-profit organisation that developed the POLAR database and chairs the Product improvement group of the Australian Digital Health Agency. It has no relationship with the research but has provided grant funding to Outcome Health. LB reports consultancy fees paid to Monash University from Charite Medical University Berlin, Jesuit Social Services Victoria, and Swinburne University of Technology, outside the submitted work. AG reports no competing interests.