Kater-Kuipers, A.
Bunnik, E. M.
de Beaufort, I. D.
Galjaard, R. J. H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Erasmus Medisch Centrum
Article History
Received: 14 September 2017
Accepted: 10 October 2018
First Online: 19 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In the Netherlands, the Medical Research Act of 1998, containing rules on medical research involving human subjects, stipulates that medical research in which human subjects are exposed to treatment or required to follow certain behavioural strategies, must be evaluated by a research ethics committee (section 1, point 2). This requirement does not apply to qualitative interview studies in which respondents are not subjected to treatment or required to undergo certain behavioural strategies ExternalRef removed. As our study pertained to a series of interviews with Dutch professionals about their views and experiences, we had no reason to doubt the non-applicability of the Medical Research Act.
: Respondents provided verbal consent to participation in the interview study and publication of the results. As the Dutch Medical Research Act does not apply to this study, written consent was not required.
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