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Predicting reattendance to the second round of the Maltese national breast screening programme: an analytical descriptive study

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Published Online: 2019-02-13

Published Print: 2019-12

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Marmarà, Danika http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-8759
Marmarà, Vincent

Hubbard, Gill
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Article History

Received: 10 February 2018

Accepted: 1 February 2019

First Online: 13 February 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approvals were obtained from the School Research Ethics Committee at the University of Stirling (SREC14/15-Paper No.18v4) and from the Maltese Health Ethics Committee (HEC 02/2015). Both ethics boards approved the use of verbal consent. Written permission was obtained from the Chief Executive Officer so that data could be computer generated from the MBSP register. Participants were informed that their data could be used for further analysis of subsequent BS cycles, if required, for which they provided verbal consent. Participants provided verbal consent over the telephone. The research assistant documented this manually in paper format by ticking Yes/No according to the participant’s response.

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