McManus, Emma
Sach, Tracey
Levell, Nick
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (CDF award-2014-07-006)
Article History
First Online: 1 September 2017
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interests.
: This work was funded as part of Professor Tracey Sach’s Career Development Fellowship (CDF award-2014-07-006) supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Further support was also received from the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care East (NIHR CLAHRC EoE). The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health.
: EM contributed to the design of the study, carried out the searches, screening and data extraction, contributed to interpretation of data, and drafted and critically reviewed the paper. TS contributed to the design of the study, carried out the screening and data extraction, contributed to interpretation of data, and drafted and critically reviewed the paper. NL contributed to the design of the study and critically reviewed the paper.
: The search strategy used to conduct the systematic literature search is published elsewhere [CitationRef removed]. The unpopulated data extraction form used within this review, as well as the quality assessment form based on the Philips criteria can be found in Electronic Supplementary Material 1. The completed data extraction table for all of the studies included within this review can be found in Electronic Supplementary Material 2.