Hansen, Anneli Borge
Baste, Valborg
Hetlevik, Øystein
Smith-Sivertsen, Tone
Haukenes, Inger
de Beurs, Derek
Nielen, Mark
Ruths, Sabine
Funding for this research was provided by:
Norges Forskningsråd (287884, 287884, 287884, 287884, 287884, 287884)
Norwegian Research Fund for General Practice (PhD grant Hansen)
Article History
Received: 29 June 2022
Accepted: 6 November 2022
First Online: 7 December 2022
Declarations
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: Norwegian data: the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics, Region West approved the project (2017/934 and 7933). The Regional Ethical Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics, Region West also waived the requirement of the informed consent for the study (2017/934/REK vest). The Norwegian Data Protection Authority approved the use of the data for research purposes in this project (17/01372–2/SBO). The register owners, Statistics Norway, the Norwegian Directorate of Health, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, approved linkage of registries. The data were pseudo-anonymized by third party (Statistics Norway) and analysed at group level to minimize the risk for backwards identification of individuals. Dutch data: the use of electronic health records for research purposes is allowed under certain conditions. When these conditions are fulfilled, neither obtaining informed consent from patients nor approval by a medical ethics committee is obligatory for this type of observational studies containing no directly identifiable data (art. 24 GDPR Implementation Act jo art. 9.2 sub j GDPR). This study has been approved according to the governance code of Nivel Primary Care Database (NZR-00319.0XX). All analyses were carried out, and methods were used in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (declaration of Helsinki).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.