Article History
Received: 25 November 2019
Accepted: 12 April 2020
First Online: 19 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study obtained approval from the local health boards (NHS Fife and NHS Tayside) to use patients’ de-identified electronic health records stored in HIC. HIC was given favourable ethics opinion regarding provision of anonymous data for research. (REC ref. CitationRef removed/ES/0015).
: Not applicable.
: None for W.S. and T.K. F.S. is a clinical director of SHARE but he derives no financial benefit from this role.