Homburg, Ines
Morreel, Stefan
Verhoeven, Veronique
Monsieurs, Koenraad G.
Meysman, Jasmine
Philips, Hilde
De Graeve, Diana
Article History
Received: 6 August 2021
Accepted: 28 March 2022
First Online: 8 April 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Committee for Medical Ethics of the Antwerp University Hospital (reference 18/37/410) and the Ethics committee of AZ Monica Deurne (reference 367). All methods were performed in accordance with the Declarations of Helsinki. Individual informed consent was waived by both Ethical Committees (Committee for Medical Ethics of the Antwerp University Hospital and Ethics committee of AZ Monica Deurne), as only pseudonymised data were collected.
: Not applicable.
: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at ExternalRef removed and declare: all authors received a grant from The Research Foundation –Flanders (FWO) for this project, covering the personnel and working costs; payment was made to their institutions. Author SM is a general practitioner working in the surroundings of the study site, and as such, he performed on call shifts at the study site and treated some of the studied patients. Due to the anonymity of the studied data, the exact number of study patients seen by him cannot be determined, but it was definitely below ten. He is also a board member of the studied general practice cooperative receiving meeting fees. Author HP is coordinator of the iCAREdata project (database used for this study). She had an appointment at the University of Antwerp for this project until September 2020. The authors declare no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.