Aylward, Ryan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3830-1795
Casula, Anna
Tiffin, Nicki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-2735
Ben-Shlomo, Yoav http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6648-3007
Rayner, Brian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0167-9591
Birnie, Kate http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9083-4097
Caskey, Fergus John http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5199-3925
Article History
Received: 1 March 2024
Accepted: 9 July 2024
First Online: 4 August 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The UKRR has ethical approval to use the surveillance data it receives for audit and research purposes under Sect. 251 of the Health and Social Care Act, United Kingdom. Permission was granted by the UKRR Data Release Group within the UKRR for use of their data for this analysis based on a quality improvement initiative.
: This study was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: A waiver of individual patient consent is provided under Sect. 251 of the Health and Social Care Act, United Kingdom. Data were pseudonymised prior to data extraction. Patients were able to voluntarily withdraw their data, and this is processed internally within the UKRR.