Moussa, George http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5136-6841
Qadir, Muhammed Omar
Ch’ng, Soon Wai
Lett, Kim Son
Mitra, Arijit
Tyagi, Ajai K
Sharma, Ash
Andreatta, Walter
Article History
Received: 7 January 2022
Accepted: 22 April 2022
First Online: 24 May 2022
Declarations
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: G. Moussa, M.O. Qadir, S.W. Ch’ng, K.S. Lett, A. Mitra, A.K. Tyagi, A. Sharma and W. Andreatta declare, that they have no competing interests.
: This study was registered and approved by our local clinical effectiveness team (Clinical Effectiveness Department, Sandwell General Hospital: reference number: 1593). As this was a retrospective anonymized study, as per our local protocol from our Clinical Effectiveness Department, and as per national guidelines from the National Code of Clinical Research, and the Health Research Authority (HRA), this study has ethical approval exemption and no patient consent was required for participation. All procedures were completed prior to the design of this study. Patients were diagnosed and treated according to local guidelines and agreements and written consent from patients was acquired prior to all procedures as clinically indicated. This study does not report on the use of new or experimental protocols.
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