Raftery, Philomena
Ködmön, Csaba
van der Werf, Marieke J.
Nikolayevskyy, Vladyslav
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2014/001)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2019
Accepted: 19 April 2020
First Online: 11 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was not required for this study as it was an evaluation of a training programme. By participating in the survey, participants gave written consent for their contribution to be used as part of the evaluation. The study was an observational study with an aim of quality improvement where no private, sensitive, personal or health data was collected or analysed. Names or surnames were not stored with the data and all identifiers were removed before data analysis and stored securely. The lead author did not have access to personal data. Therefore, we declare that no personal information was collected or analysed and as such no ethics permission was required for this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.