Stephenson, J.
Smith, C. M.
Kearns, B.
Haywood, A.
Bissell, P.
Article History
Received: 8 March 2021
Accepted: 21 September 2021
First Online: 3 November 2021
Declarations
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: The protocol for the South Yorkshire Cohort (the early name for the Yorkshire Health Study) was approved by the NHS Research Ethics Committee on 27 April 2010 (09/H1306/97). All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Informed consent was obtained from all participants based on the principle of ‘patient-centred informed consent’ i.e. where patient information and consent aim to replicate that of real world routine healthcare rather than conform to the needs of standard trial designs. Therefore all cohort patients consented to provide observational data at the outset, be contacted again, and for their information to be used to look at the benefit of healthcare treatments; however, consent to “try” a particular intervention in the future was sought only from those offered that intervention. This method of obtaining consent replicates the ‘patient-centred’ information and consent procedures that exist in routine health care, where clinicians provide patients with the information they need, at the time they need it. The consent procedure is described fully in the South Yorkshire Cohort Protocol [CitationRef removed]. Research on human data was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.