van Gurp, Jelle L. P.
Ebenau, Anne http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8827-8725
van der Burg, Simone
Hasselaar, Jeroen
Funding for this research was provided by:
KWF Kankerbestrijding (KUN-2013-6466, 2013)
Article History
Received: 5 September 2019
Accepted: 9 July 2020
First Online: 20 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The local Ethical Review Committee (Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CMO), region Arnhem-Nijmegen, Radboudumc; 2014/080) concluded that this study did not fall within the reach of Medical Research involving Human Subjects Act. Therefore, following the rules on good clinical practice, patient participants were asked to provide written consent and were assured confidential treatment of interview data. Following the rules of best research practice at the time of data-collection, as recommended by the Ethical Review Committee in an e-mail on March 18 2014, only verbal informed consent was obtained from health care professionals after they were extensively informed beforehand with an invitation e-mail that included information on the study in general and the focus group in particular. The participating health care professionals were equally assured confidential treatment of focus group data.
: Patient participants and HCPs respectively provided written consent and verbal consent for publication.
: None.