Bekker, Yvonne A. C.
Suntjens, Ankie F.
Engels, Y.
Schers, H.
Westert, Gert P.
Groenewoud, A. Stef
Article History
Received: 7 June 2021
Accepted: 24 January 2022
First Online: 14 February 2022
Declarations
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: All methods were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and with other relevant guidelines and regulations.The research ethics committee of the Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) Nijmegen declared that this study does not fall within the remit of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (file number 2018–4271, July 2018). Besides, they approved utilization of the FaMe-Net database for this purpose (file number 2020–6871).In the participating practices of the FaMe-Net database, all medical ethical and privacy requirements in relation to scientific studies are met. Informed consent was signed by all cooperating general practices and consent of patients was obtained through an opt-out arrangement, to make the data available for quality improvement and research purposes. Patient records were received pseudonymized, whilst the key to the personal data was inaccessible for the researchers.
: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests