Cooper, Jennifer Anne
Ryan, Ronan
Parsons, Nick
Stinton, Chris
Marshall, Tom
Taylor-Phillips, Sian
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands (N/A)
NIHR Infrastructure Doctoral Training Exchange Award (IDTE-03016-0#)
NIHR Career Development Fellowship (CDF-2016-09-018)
Article History
Received: 27 August 2019
Accepted: 24 February 2020
First Online: 25 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The NHS South-East Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee (MREC) approved The Health Improvement Network (THIN) data collection in 2003. An Independent Scientific Review Committee (SRC) administered by IQVIA (formerly IMS Health) reviews and approves protocols for the use of the database and informs the relevant Ethics committee. The SRC approved the use of the THIN database for this study (SRC Reference Number: 16THIN037 Date: 26/05/2016).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.