Kümin, Michelle
Harper, Christopher Mark
Reed, Mike
Bremner, Stephen
Perry, Nicky
Scarborough, Matthew http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0455-0785
Funding for this research was provided by:
Healthcare Infection Society
Nuffield Benefaction for Medicine and the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund
3MTM Patient Warming Solutions
Article History
Received: 22 June 2018
Accepted: 21 October 2018
First Online: 19 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The pilot study is being conducted in full compliance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and International Conference on Harmonisation Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice and has ethical approval from the West Midlands Coventry and Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee (REC ref. 16/WM/0451) and the Health Research Authority (HRA Ref 197521). The full ethically approved protocol is shown in Additional file InternalRef removed. The study is sponsored by Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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: MK, SB, NP and MS declare that they have no competing interests. CMH declares that he has been loaned equipment by various companies and paid honoraria by 3M and Molnlycke Health Care. MR declares that he has received speaker fees from Heraeus and research funding from Heraeus, 3M, Zimmer and Convatec.
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