Bright, Diana
Hillier, Sharon
Song, Jiao
Huws, Dyfed W.
Greene, Giles
Hodgson, Karen
Akbari, Ashley
Griffiths, Rowena
Davies, Alisha R.
Gjini, Ardiana
Funding for this research was provided by:
This work was supported by the Con-COV team funded by the Medical Research Council. (MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1, MR/V028367/1)
HDR UK Ltd (HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006, HDR-9006)
ADR UK (grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1, grant ES/S007393/1)
Article History
Received: 5 August 2022
Accepted: 28 February 2023
First Online: 22 March 2023
Declarations
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: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Approval for the use of anonymised data in this study, provisioned within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank was granted by an independent Information Governance Review Panel (IGRP) under project 0911. The IGRP has a membership comprised of senior representatives from the British Medical Association (BMA), the National Research Ethics Service (NRES), Public Health Wales and Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW). Our study involved retrospectively linking and analysing already collected and centrally held routine administrative data comprising anonymised electronic records therefore, we were exempt from National Research Ethics Committee (NREC) and obtaining informed consent from participants did not apply to our study. This was also confirmed by the SAIL Databank IGRP.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.