Brennan, Victoria K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7814-2306
Jones, Georgina
Radley, Stephen
Dixon, Simon
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Sheffield
RTI Health Solutions
Article History
Accepted: 11 March 2021
First Online: 30 March 2021
Declarations
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: This work was partially funded by RTI Health Solutions through a supporting PhD fund. Funding for the online survey was obtained from The University of Sheffield, School of Health and Related Research data collection fund.
: S Radley is an unsalaried director and shareholder in ePAQ Systems Ltd, a UK national health service (NHS) spin-out technology company, the largest shareholder in which is Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation. VK Brennan, S Dixon, G Jones and S Radley have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: Information on the availability of data from the ePAQ EEACT is reported within the relevant publication [6]. For the bolt-on study, ethics approval and patient consent were gained only for results to be shared through publications in academic journals and presented at conferences and can only be published in aggregate form. These data sets are therefore not publicly available. Data enquiries may be directed to the corresponding author.
: The EEACT study protocol was approved by the North Sheffield ethics committee and was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov (identifier NCT02176330). The process utility valuation study gained ethics approval from The University of Sheffield ethics committee.
: Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.
: Coding from the analyses can be obtained from the authors on request. This includes the STATA files for the SUR analyses and production of the cost-effectiveness planes and CEACs, and in SPSS format for the regression analyses run. Coding enquiries may be directed to the corresponding author.
: VB was involved in study conception and design, data collection, and analysis and interpretation of results and drafted the manuscript. SD was involved in the study conception and design and advised on the analysis and interpretation of results. GJ and SR led the EEACT. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.