Kulshrestha, R. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1613-1462
Kuiper, J. H.
Masri, W. El.
Chowdhury, J. R.
Kaur, S.
Kumar, N.
Lalam, R.
Osman, A. E.
Article History
Received: 20 July 2019
Revised: 5 January 2020
Accepted: 6 January 2020
First Online: 20 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Healthcare quality improvement partnership (HQIP) provides guidance intended to help those responsible to review and develop arrangements for the effective ethics oversight of quality improvement and clinical audit activities, as required. Our local audit department follows the principles of HQIP. This study was approved by the local audit department allowing use of clinical data for service evaluation (Supplementary Appendix, certificate from audit department).