O’Grady, Aiden
Welsh, Luke
Gibson, Matthew
Briggs, James
Speirs, Archie
Little, Mark http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5003-1070
Article History
Received: 23 July 2021
Accepted: 15 September 2021
First Online: 17 October 2021
Declarations
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: MW Little is a paid consultant for Guerbet, Crannmed, Merit Medical, and Boston Scientific. None of the other authors declare a potential conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All training for this anatomical research project was carried out through Keele University’s School of Medicine Anatomical Facilities, under guidance of the HTA licence #12190 (Sect. 16; 2; c of the Human Tissue Act 2004). Prior to the project being conducted it was reviewed by the Anatomical Research Group (ARG) for its suitability to train an Anatomical Science student in scientific method, and subsequently scrutinised for any ethical concerns by the ARG Ethics (sub) Committee (including the HTA Licence Holder, the Facilities Manager, the project coordinator, and 2 representatives of ARG). The project was then detailed for review and documentation by the Keele University Human Tissue Committee.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the GENESIS study.
: Consent for publication was obtained for every individual person’s data included in the GENESIS study.