McMenamin, Úna
Hicks, Blánaid
Hughes, Carmel
Murchie, Peter
Hippisley-Cox, Julia
Ranger, Tom
Coupland, Carol
Cardwell, Chris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2689-4335
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cancer Research UK (C37316/A29656)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2020
Accepted: 18 March 2021
First Online: 24 March 2021
Declarations
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: Approval for analysis of the Welsh data has been obtained from the SAIL Databank Information Governance Review Panel (Reference: 0965) and approval for the analysis of the Scottish data has been obtained from the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (Reference: 2021–0014). In both Scotland and Wales only de-identified data will be used and therefore written informed consent was not obtained. However patients from Wales included in SAIL Databank are informed that their anonymous routine data is being used for research and can opt-out by informing their GP (ExternalRef removed). Similarly, patients from Scotland are informed that their non-identifiable routine data is being used for research and have the right to object to its use (ExternalRef removed).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.