Cockburn, Neil
Hammond, Ben
Gani, Illin
Cusworth, Samuel
Acharya, Aditya
Gokhale, Krishna
Thayakaran, Rasiah
Crowe, Francesca
Minhas, Sonica
Smith, William Parry
Taylor, Beck
Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah
Chandan, Joht Singh
Article History
Received: 4 March 2024
Accepted: 24 June 2024
First Online: 4 July 2024
Declarations
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: CPRD obtains annual research ethics approval from the UK’s Health Research Authority Research Ethics Committee (East Midlands, Derby; reference no. 05/MRE04/87) to receive and supply patient data for public health research. Therefore, no additional ethics approval is required for observational studies using CPRD Aurum data for public health research, subject to individual research protocols meeting CPRD data governance requirements. The use of CPRD Aurum data for the study was approved by the CPRD Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (reference no. 22_001978).
: Not applicable
: JSC, KN and KMG are co-directors of DExtER operating division which is part of the University of Birmingham. DExtER operating division supports the extraction and preparing of healthcare data to support epidemiological analyses such as those seen in this article. No other competing interests have been declared by authors.