Barcroft, Jennifer F.
Yom-Tov, Elad
Lampos, Vasilieos
Ellis, Laura Burney
Guzman, David
Ponce-López, Víctor
Bourne, Tom
Cox, Ingemar J.
Saso, Srdjan
Article History
Received: 22 October 2023
Accepted: 4 January 2024
First Online: 11 March 2024
Declarations
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: Institutional review board approval was granted in May 2020, by the North of Scotland ethics committee (REC approval 20/NS/0063). All patients signed informed consent to participate in the study. The filtered Google takeout files were pseudo-anonymised, and the original Google takeout file (non-filtered) was deleted. Data was processed in line with GDPR regulations. Permission was granted to utilise Bing data by the Microsoft Ethics Review Board (approval number 10532).
: Not applicable.
: E.Y–T is employed by Microsoft, the owner of Bing the search engine, he has no other conflicts of interest to declare. J.B, L.B.E, S.S, D.G, V.L, V.P.L, T.B, I.J.C have no financial, personal, intellectual, and professional conflicts of interest to declare.