Beaney, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9709-7264
Clarke, Jonathan M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1495-7746
Grundy, Emily
Coronini-Cronberg, Sophie
Article History
Received: 19 December 2020
Accepted: 2 December 2021
First Online: 12 January 2022
Declarations
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: Access to a pseudonymised extract from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) was granted through a Data Access Request Service application through NHS Digital and approved following review by the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data (IGARD) without the need for informed consent from participants. Local ethical approval was also granted through the Imperial College Research Ethics Committee (17IC4178). Individual consent to participate is not required, as HES data is collected routinely from NHS providers and NHS Digital and made available on application for research purposes:ExternalRef removed
: Not applicable
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.