Funding for this research was provided by:
Public Health England (ECM2319)
Article History
Received: 24 January 2020
Revised: 31 July 2020
Accepted: 9 September 2020
First Online: 30 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Roger Blanks.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: The NHSBSP has gained approval to access and process patient data for the purposes of quality control under section 251 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 through approval of the Confidentiality Advisory Group (previously the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care). Because this study did not involve patient contact, intervention, or use of identifiable patient data, it was determined to be exempt from human subject’s ethical review in the United Kingdom. Ethics committee approval was therefore not required and written informed consent was waived.
: The NHSBSP has gained approval to access and process patient data for the purposes of quality control under section 251 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 through approval of the Confidentiality Advisory Group (previously the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care). Because this study did not involve patient contact, intervention, or use of identifiable patient data, it was determined to be exempt from human subject’s ethical review in the United Kingdom. Ethics committee approval was therefore not required and written informed consent was waived.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in Blanks RG, Given-Wilson RM, Cohen SL, Patnick J, Alison RJ, Wallis MG. An analysis of 11.3 million screening tests examining the association between recall and cancer detection rates in the English NHS breast cancer screening programme. <i>Eur Radiol</i>. 2019; 29(7):3812–3819.
: • retrospective• observational• multicentre study