Cramm, Jane Murray
Nieboer, Anna Petra
Article History
Received: 26 November 2018
Accepted: 18 July 2019
First Online: 24 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to the national Dutch guidelines carried out by the Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (the national ethics committee in the Netherlands), this study did not fall within the scope of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act. We investigated informal caregivers’ perceptions not patients. It was thus exempted from review by an accredited medical research and ethics committee or the CCMO. All respondents were informed about the study aims and its anonymous and voluntary nature before they consented to participate. By filling in the questionnaire and sending them back to us consent was implied.
: Not applicable.
: Anna Petra Nieboer is an associate editor of BMC Health Services Research. Otherwise, the authors declare that they have no competing interest.