Tulloch, John S. P.
Christley, Robert M.
Radford, Alan D.
Warner, Jenny C.
Beadsworth, Mike B. J.
Beeching, Nick J.
Vivancos, Roberto
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR HPRU EZI (IS-HPU-1112-10117)
Article History
Received: 6 August 2019
Accepted: 7 April 2020
First Online: 16 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study received ethical approval from the THIN Scientific Review Committee (16THIN103). THIN data was received by Public Health England in a pseudo-anonymised format and stored on secure servers. JT was given access permissions to the raw data; this permission was granted by the above approval and by internal PHE data access agreements. No one in the team was granted administrative permissions.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare; no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work, except Dr. Beeching who reports being an unpaid member of the NICE Guidelines Committee on the diagnosis and management of Lyme disease, during the conduct of the study.