Cook, Jonathan A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4156-6989
Julious, Steven A.
Sones, William
Hampson, Lisa V.
Hewitt, Catherine
Berlin, Jesse A.
Ashby, Deborah
Emsley, Richard
Fergusson, Dean A.
Walters, Stephen J.
Wilson, Edward C. F.
Maclennan, Graeme
Stallard, Nigel
Rothwell, Joanne C.
Bland, Martin
Brown, Louise
Ramsay, Craig R.
Cook, Andrew
Armstrong, David
Altman, Doug
Vale, Luke D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (N/A)
National Institute for Health Research (N/A)
Article History
Received: 20 August 2018
Accepted: 29 August 2018
First Online: 5 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for the Delphi study which is part of the DELTA<sup>2</sup> project was sought and received from the University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Inter-divisional Research Ethics Committee (IDREC - R46815/RE001). Informed consent was obtained for all participants in the Delphi study.
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