Shelmerdine, Susan Cheng https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-9967
Davendralingam, Natasha
Langan, Dean
Palm, Liina
Mangham, Chas
Arthurs, Owen J.
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Barber, Joy Louise
Bevan, Jonathan
Choa-Go, Joanna Marie
Colak, Edis
Davies, Thomas
Dodd, Cassandra
Dupre, Mhairi
Edwards, Harriet
Eid, Hadeel
Fagan, Aisling
Gaunt, Trevor
Halliday, Katharine
Hameed, Shema
Kirby, Andrew
Kirkbride, Rachael R.
Laidlow-Singh, Harsimran
Lam, Christopher Z.
Meshaka, Riwa
McLoughlin, Emer
Reid, Catriona
Sande, Joyce
Savage, Thomas
Schillizzi, Giuseppe
Spruce, Rebecca
Terrazas, Estefania
Verhagen, Martijn Vincent
Young, Neil
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR-301322, NIHR-CDF-2017-10-037)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2023
Revised: 2 February 2024
Accepted: 13 February 2024
First Online: 9 March 2024
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Owen J Arthurs.
: The authors of this manuscript do not have relationships with any companies; however, Professor Owen Arthurs, Professor Chas Mangham and Dr Liina Palm regularly provide expert testimony for the Crown Court as expert witnesses in criminal proceedings for which they receive payment from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise (Dr Dean Langan works as a full-time statistician).
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because all cases were forensic in nature and mandated by the UK Crown Court system, which does not require parental or familial consent for living relatives of the deceased patients.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: None of the study cohort or subjects overlap from previous work on this topic.
: • retrospective• diagnostic accuracy study• performed at one institution