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Glancz, Laurence Johann
Poon, Michael Tin Chung
Hutchinson, Peter John
Kolias, Angelos Georgiou
Brennan, Paul Martin
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Edinburgh
Article History
Received: 26 August 2019
Accepted: 2 April 2020
First Online: 27 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Peter Hutchinson is supported by a Research Professorship from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, a European Union Seventh Framework Program grant (CENTER-TBI; grant no. 602150), and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Angelos Kolias is supported by a Clinical Lectureship, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. All remaining authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licencing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee (Academic Committee of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons), and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study formal consent is not required, although local governance approvals were in place in each participating NSU.