Hall, Charlotte L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5412-6165
Brown, Susan
James, Marilyn
Martin, Jennifer L.
Brown, Nikki
Selby, Kim
Clarke, Julie
Williams, Laura
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: 12 September 2018
Accepted: 9 June 2019
First Online: 18 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The paper presents the methodological development of the protocol created by a steering group. Members were not recruited by public recruitment in the NHS nor were the activities considered ‘data collection’ or ‘research’ (but rather, involvement in shaping the research design) and thus ethical approval for the workshops was not sought; this was agreed by the study Sponsor (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ref: Groom050917). Nonetheless, although not required by an ethics committee, all members of the workshops were adults who provided their verbal consent to participate. The resulting protocol that stemmed from the process described in this manuscript did receive Ethical approval: QUOTA protocol (v1.1) approved by West of Scotland REC 1 (REC reference 17/WS/0209) on 7th November 2017.
: Not applicable.
: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author declares no conflicts of interests.