Fleming, Michael
Bandyopadhyay, Amrita
McLay, James S.
Clark, David
King, Albert
Mackay, Daniel F.
Lyons, Ronan A.
Sayal, Kapil
Brophy, Sinead
Pell, Jill P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Data Research UK (MR/S003800/1)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2021
Accepted: 3 May 2022
First Online: 30 May 2022
Declarations
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: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The need for ethical approvals to access Scottish and Welsh data were waived by the NHS West of Scotland Research Ethics Service and the SAIL Databank Information Governance Review Panel (IGRP) respectively. The former confirmed that formal NHS ethics approval was not required for the analyses of the Scottish data since the study involved linkage of routinely collected data with an acceptably negligible risk of identification. The Scottish data were approved by the National Health Service Public Benefit and Privacy Panel and covered by a data processing agreement between Glasgow University and Public Health Scotland and a data sharing agreement between Glasgow University and the education department of the Scottish Government (ScotXed). The Welsh data were approved by SAIL Databank Information Governance Review Panel (IGRP) and the data were analysed under the approved project Wales Electronic Cohort for Children (WECC): Phase 4 (project number 0916).The need for informed consents for Scottish and Welsh data were also waived by the NHS West of Scotland Research Ethics Service and the SAIL Databank Information Governance Review Panel (IGRP) respectively. It was deemed that obtaining informed consent from patients did not apply to our study which involved retrospectively linking and analysing already collected and centrally held routine administrative data comprising anonymised electronic patient records.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.