Williams, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6296-6677
Hall, Charlotte L.
Brown, Susan
Guo, Boliang
James, Marilyn
Franceschini, Matilde
Clarke, Julie
Selby, Kim
Vijayan, Hena
Kulkarni, Neeta
Brown, Nikki
Sayal, Kapil
Hollis, Chris
Groom, Madeleine J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research for Patient Benefit Programme (PB-PG-1215-20026)
Article History
Received: 18 February 2020
Accepted: 29 January 2021
First Online: 16 March 2021
Change Date: 15 April 2021
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00830-2
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All work was undertaken under the auspices of the QUOTA-Trial which has ethical approval granted by West of Scotland REC 1 (17/WS/0209: protocol version 1.1, 7th November 2017) and the Research and Development Department of each respective NHS Trust. As such, the study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained—for children aged under 16, written consent was obtained from the parent/legal guardian and verbal or written assent was obtained from the child/young person.
: Not applicable.
: KS is a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group. CH is an expert adviser for the NICE centre for Guidelines. MG has received speaker fees and research funding support from Qbtech Ltd but not for the study presented herein. All other authors declare no conflicts or competing interests. Qbtech Ltd. had no role in the funding, design, conduct of the study; the interpretation of results or the preparation of the final manuscript.