Atfeh, Mihiar Sami
Singh, Kathryn
Khalil, Hisham Saleh
Article History
Received: 26 April 2018
Accepted: 28 May 2018
First Online: 4 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The formal local ethical procedures were followed and patients’ data were anonymised throughout the project. A formal application to the local clinical audit department was submitted and approved prior to initiating the project data collection. Regular feedback to the clinical audit department was provided throughout the progress of the project. The clinical guideline was formally approved by the Medical Director, Assistant Medical Director, and was reviewed by the Patient Safety team and the Quality facilitators. No patient-identifying data were retained during data collection. The first and third authors are the developers of the clinical guideline and permit the use of the guideline for the purposes of publication. During the development of the clinical guideline, multiple “versions” were produced gradually until the approval of a final version which was published as “version 1” on the Trust’s guidelines portal. The guideline “version 1” was reviewed in 2017 and remained unchanged and, therefore, remains named as “version 1”.