Duncan, Edward A. S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3400-905X
Best, Catherine
Dougall, Nadine
Skar, Silje
Evans, Josie
Corfield, Alasdair R.
Fitzpatrick, David
Goldie, Isabella
Maxwell, Margaret
Snooks, Helen
Stark, Cameron
White, Chris
Wojcik, Wojtek
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chief Scientist Office (HICG/1/27)
Article History
Received: 10 August 2018
Accepted: 11 March 2019
First Online: 20 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was given ethical approval by the National Research Ethics Committee East Midlands – Derby (REC Ref. 15/EM/0260) and the NHS Scotland Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (Ref. 1516–0138). As this study involved pseudeonomised secondary data analysis patients were not requested to participate or for consent to publish.
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