McLoughlin, Caoimhe
McLoughlin, Aoibheann
Jain, Sudha
Abdalla, Ahad
Cooney, John
MacHale, Siobhan
Article History
Received: 11 December 2020
Accepted: 19 December 2020
First Online: 3 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This was a service evaluation study. No contact was made with patients for the duration of the study. No identifiable patient data was used. Data was obtained via an electronic hospital system and anonymised to ensure patient confidentiality. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committee on human experimentation with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The authors assert that this study was approved as a quality improvement initiative by the Joint Research and Ethics Committee of St. James’s Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital and a service evaluation project by the Clinical Governance, Audit and Service Evaluation Committee in Beaumont Hospital.