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Alsallakh, Mohammad A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8333-7279
Sivakumaran, Shanya https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1914-6643
Kennedy, Sharon
Vasileiou, Eleftheria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6850-7578
Lyons, Ronan A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5225-000X
Robertson, Chris https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6848-5241
Sheikh, Aziz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7022-3056
Davies, Gwyneth A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-1008
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/R008345/1)
Article History
Received: 12 January 2021
Accepted: 30 April 2021
First Online: 17 May 2021
Declarations
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: We were granted permissions from the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (HSC-PBPP) of Public Health Scotland and SAIL’s independent Information Governance Review Panel to conduct this study. Ethical review was not required as only anonymised data were used.
: Not applicable.
: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at and declare: funding from UK Research and Innovation (AS), Medical Research Council (CR), Health Data Research UK (RAL), and Public Health Scotland (CR) during the conduct of the study; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years; and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.