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Article History

Received: 1 November 2023

Accepted: 9 May 2024

First Online: 25 May 2024

Declarations

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: Approval by a medical ethics committee is not needed for non-experimental exploratory focus group or interview data involving experts, in this case, GPs, according to Dutch law []. Data collection has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The anonymity of the GPs was strictly preserved through the process of data entry and analysis.Participating GPs received an informed consent form a few days before the interview. Before recording the interview we asked if the GPs had any questions with regard to the informed consent. Subsequently, they were asked to confirm their agreement with the terms of the informed consent. This confirmation was obtained on the recording. All participants gave verbal informed consent. According to Dutch legislation, verbal informed consent is allowed, because this research contained non-experimental interview data involving experts (GPs) [].

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.