Marappa-Ganeshan, Raghavendra
Sim, Francis
Sidhom, Sameh
Chakrabarty, Gautam
Pandit, Hemant G.
van Duren, Bernard H. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1877-8227
Article History
Received: 7 June 2020
Accepted: 14 July 2020
First Online: 5 September 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. Professor Pandit is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. Mr. van Duren is a BRC-NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer. The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the BRC, NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care.
: The study was registered with and approved by the clinical governance department of our hospital as a service evaluation project. We gained approval to utilise the already collected data for the purposes of this study.
: This is a retrospective evaluation of clinical data using anonymised patient information routinely collected by our service. The study was registered and approved by our organisation’s clinical governance department as a service evaluation project which does not require formal patient consent in our institution. Manuscript approval was obtained prior to publication.