Gray, Joanne
McCarthy, Stephen
Carr, Esther
Danjoux, Gerard
Hackett, Rhiannon
McCarthy, Andrew
McMeekin, Peter
Clark, Natalie
Baker, Paul
Article History
Received: 2 December 2021
Accepted: 21 April 2022
First Online: 29 April 2022
Declarations
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: All methods within this study were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The study was reviewed by the UK National Research Ethics Service and Northumbria University Research Ethics Committee and was considered exempt from formal ethics approval as it involved analysis of existing datasets of anonymised data for service evaluation. Approvals for the use of hospital episode statistics data were obtained as part of the standard hospital’s episode statistics approval process. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects and/or their legal guardian(s) as part of the data collection.”
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.