Bell, Samira http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9100-1575
Campbell, Jacqueline
McDonald, Jackie
O’Neill, Martin
Watters, Chrissie
Buck, Katharine
Cousland, Zoe
Findlay, Mark
Lone, Nazir I.
Metcalfe, Wendy
Methven, Shona
Peel, Robert
Almond, Alison
Sanu, Vinod
Spalding, Elaine
Thomson, Peter C.
Mark, Patrick B.
Traynor, Jamie P.
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Article History
Received: 13 July 2020
Accepted: 9 September 2020
First Online: 1 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was deemed unnecessary according to Public Health Scotland Information Governance as this was analysis of routinely collected data. As the analysis used routinely collected and anonymized data, individual patient consent was not sought. Access and use of the data for the purpose of this work were approved following a Public Health Scotland information governance review of linking internal datasets. Only the Public Health Scotland analyst had access to the linked patient data which could only be accessed via an NHS secure network.
: Not applicable.
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