Nimmo, Ailish
Steenkamp, Retha
Ravanan, Rommel
Taylor, Dominic
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (IR. TBZMED. REC. 1397.1009)
Article History
Received: 15 December 2020
Accepted: 2 March 2021
First Online: 17 March 2021
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for the ATTOM study was obtained from the National Health Service Health and Social Care Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 11/EE/0120). Patients provided informed consent at ATTOM recruitment that they were happy for subsequent analysis of outcomes. All data were stored in line with the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998 requirements. HES data were stored securely in NHS Blood and Transplant as per the data sharing agreement with NHS Digital (Data Sharing Agreement Number DARS-NIC-14342-Q8W0X-v1.4).
: Not applicable.
: The authors, other than RS, received funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under the Programme Grants for Applied Research scheme (RP-PG-0109-10116) for completion of the ATTOM study. RS declares no conflicts of interest.