Mahat, Sanu
Rafferty, Anne Marie
Vehviläinen-Julkunen, Katri
Härkänen, Marja
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sairaanhoitajien koulutussäätiö
Itä-Suomen Yliopisto
King's college London
Academy of Finland
Article History
Received: 29 June 2022
Accepted: 9 November 2022
First Online: 3 December 2022
Declarations
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: Data sharing agreement (Ref: 063.DSA.17) between NHS Improvement and King’s College London dated 22.08.2019 allowed us to use this data. As the data used for this study were voluntarily and anonymously submitted incident reports data (a register study), the need for seeking informed consent from the incident reporters was waived from the ethics committee. The King’s College London ethics committee (LRS-17/18-5150) gave ethical approval for this study in October 2017. Incident data used for this study did not comprise any personal or professional identifiers. Therefore, the anonymity and confidentiality of the data and the persons involved were fully ensured. Further, data handling was made confidential and ethical guidelines were followed.
: Not applicable.
: No competing interests have been declared by authors.