Doble, Brett http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4948-8831
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Welbourn, Richard
Carter, Nicholas
Byrne, James
Rogers, Chris A.
Blazeby, Jane M.
Wordsworth, Sarah
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Technology Assessment Programme (09/127/53)
Article History
First Online: 27 October 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Author 2 declares receiving support from Ethicon Endo-Surgery for attending conferences and funding a Bariatric Clinical Fellow as well as receiving honoraria from Novo Nordisk. Author 5 received salary funding from the British Heart Foundation. All the other authors have no conflict of interests to declare, except support from a government grant detailed in the acknowledgements.
: The National Research Ethics Committee South West – Frenchay approved the micro-costing on 6th December 2011 as part of the BBS study protocol. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the BBS study.