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Lay-Flurrie, Sarah
Mathieu, Edouard
Bankhead, Clare
Nicholson, Brian D.
Perera-Salazar, Rafael
Holt, Tim
Hobbs, F. D. Richard http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7976-7172
Salisbury, Chris
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health Policy Research Programme UK (PR-ST-0215-10008)
Article History
Received: 14 November 2018
Accepted: 24 March 2019
First Online: 6 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for observational research using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink with approval from the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency was granted by a National Research Ethics Service committee (Trent MultiResearch Ethics Committee, Research Ethics Committee reference number 05/MRE04/87).
: Not applicable.
: FDRH is a part-time GP at Bellevue Medical Centre, the Modality Partnership Birmingham. CS is a GP in Bristol. TH is a GP in London. All other authors declare no competing interests.
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