Garner, Alex
Preston, Nancy
Caiado, Camila C S
Stubington, Emma
Hanratty, Barbara
Limb, James
Mason, Suzanne M
Knight, Jo
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (COV0466)
UK Research and Innovation (MR/V028502/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R513076/1)
Article History
Received: 27 June 2023
Accepted: 9 May 2024
First Online: 23 May 2024
Declarations
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: The project was approved by Lancaster University Faculty of Health and Medicine Research Ethics committee, reference FHM-2022-3318-RECR-2. Data was collected from CDDFT and stored in a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) managed by Durham University. The Trust shared anonymised data after undertaking a Data Privacy Impact Assessment and a Data Transfer Agreement. The need for informed consent was waived by Lancaster University Faculty of Health and Medicine Research Ethics committee since informed consent is not possible with anonymised data from hospital systems.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study is an exploratory, secondary analysis of routinely collected NHS data on healthcare utilisation patterns. There are no specific methodological guidelines or regulations for the exploratory work presented in this manuscript.
: Data was collected from CDDFT and stored in a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) managed by Durham University. Informed consent was not possible as the data was anonymised. The Trust shared anonymised data after undertaking a Data Privacy Impact Assessment and a Data Transfer Agreement. Data supporting this study is not publicly available due to ethical considerations around accessing linked patient level healthcare data. The authors can no longer access the data used in this analysis. Please contact the main author for more information (<i>a.garner2@lancaster.ac.uk</i>).