Lear, Rachael
Tao, Rachel
Carenzo, Catalina
Yagis, Ekin
Li, Zhuoyu
Tipper, Maria
Motsi, Agnes
O’Malley, Sharon
Abdullahi, Yusuf
Glampson, Ben
Mitchell, Colin
Mayer, Erik K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR North West London Patient Safety Research Collaborative and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
Article History
Received: 15 January 2026
Accepted: 25 May 2026
First Online: 6 July 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Data access and approvals: Informed consent was not required for this research as it involved the secondary use of anonymised, routinely collected electronic health record data accessed within a secure research environment. This research database is approved by the Health Research Authority with favourable ethics approval given by the West Midlands Solihull Research Ethics Committee (reference 18/WM/0323; IRAS project ID 252449). Access to the research database, to undertake this study, was provided by the NW London Sub-Data Research Access Group (SDRAG Ref ID 342). All data used in this work were fully anonymised before analysis.