Ainsworth, Ben https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5098-1092
Stanescu, Sabina
Stuart, Beth
Russell, Daniel
Liddiard, Megan
Djukanovic, Ratko
Thomas, Mike
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR School for Primary Care Research (373)
Article History
Received: 5 March 2021
Accepted: 20 July 2021
First Online: 27 August 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: BA has received fees for speaking at educational meetings hosted by Astra Zeneca, and an expert advisory panel Roche. He is a member of the Taskforce for Lung Health. MT has received speaker’s honoraria for speaking at sponsored meetings or satellite symposia at conferences from the following companies marketing respiratory and allergy products: GSK, Novartis. He has received honoraria for attending advisory panels with; Boehringer Inglehiem, GSK, Novartis,. He is a recent a member of the BTS SIGN Asthma guideline steering group and the NICE Asthma Diagnosis and Monitoring guideline development group. RD, BS, DR, ML and SS have no conflicts of interest.
: Ethical approval was given by the South Central Hampshire Research Ethics Committee (17/SC/0088) and the University of Southampton Ethics and Research Governance Online (24515). The study was in line with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). All participants provided informed consent before taking part.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.