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Familiarity with the post-intensive care syndrome among general practitioners and opportunities to improve their involvement in ICU follow-up care

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Acknowledgements

HORIZON-ICU study group members: Tim I. M. Korevaar, MD, PhD, internist in training, epidemiologist, department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Academic Centre for Thyroid Diseases, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Paul W. J. Vlake, MD, general practitioner, General Practice Vlake, HOED Pax et Bonum, Vught, The Netherlands; Matilde Hobers, BSc, medical student, department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tim I. M. Korevaar, Paul W. J. Vlake, Matilde Hobers.

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The PhD trajectory of JV was funded by BeterKeten (foundation). The funding source had no role in the design, conduct, data collection, analysis, or interpretation of data nor in writing the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Adults, Erasmus MC, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, (internal postadress: Room NE-411), 3015 GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Johan H. Vlake, Jasper van Bommel, Diederik Gommers & Michel E. van Genderen

  2. Department of Intensive Care, Franciscus Gasthuis and Vlietland, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Johan H. Vlake & Evert-Jan Wils

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  • Tim I. M. Korevaar
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Contributions

All authors assisted in the study design: JV, EJW, JvB, TK, PV, DG, and MvG designed the questionnaire, PV coordinated the evaluation of the questionnaire by five independent GPs. MH recruited GPs and collected data; data was independently verified by JV and TK. JV and TK performed the data analyses. JV, EJW and MvG wrote the initial version of the manuscript; JvB, TK, PV, and DG helped draft the final version of the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Michel E. van Genderen.

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DG has received speaker fees and travel expenses from Dräger, GE Healthcare (medical advisory board 2009–12), Maquet, and Novalung (medical advisory board 2015–18). TK has received speaker fees from Quidel, IBSA, Merck, Berlin Chemie, and Goodlife Healthcare. All other authors declare no competing interests.

Ethical approval and consent to participate

The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board of the Franciscus Gasthuis and Vlietland (local identification number: 2019-112), was found not to be subject to the Medical Research Involving Human Act, and the need for written informed-consent was waived due to the non-interventional and non-intrusive nature of the study and consent was implied by participation in the study.

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Vlake, J.H., Wils, EJ., van Bommel, J. et al. Familiarity with the post-intensive care syndrome among general practitioners and opportunities to improve their involvement in ICU follow-up care. Intensive Care Med 48, 1090–1092 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-022-06782-2

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