Acknowledgments
Members of the PRIMLAB working group are the following: Beatriz Massa (Chief Executive, Hospital Universitario de San Juan); Norma Iranzo (Medical vice-director); Ramón de Juan (Director, Primary Care); Alejandro Canals-Baeza (CS Santa Faz-Ayuntamiento); Jose L López-Blasco (CS Hospital Provincial-Plá); Esperanza Gonzalez-Alvaro (CS Juan XXIII); Jordi Gisbert-Segura (CS Campello); Rosario Oliver-Ros (CS Xixona); Jose Luis Berenguer (CS Mutxamel); Juan J Ballester-Baixaulí (CS Sant Joan) and Carmen Pardo-Tomas (CSI Gerona).
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Research funding: None declared.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Ethical approval: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review.
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