Pavlou, Menelaos http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1161-1440
Ambler, Gareth
Omar, Rumana Z.
Goodwin, Andrew T.
Trivedi, Uday
Ludman, Peter
de Belder, Mark
Article History
Received: 15 July 2022
Accepted: 20 December 2022
First Online: 10 January 2023
Declarations
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: This is an observational study. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations, in line with the Declaration of Helsinki. This work was performed as part of the methodological review of the National Cardiac Audit Programme (NCAP), commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Programme (HQIP), and overseen by the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR). The review and application of the methodologies was agreed as part of the commission. NICOR conforms to legislation within the Data Protection Act for the collection and use of patient-identifiable data and has approval to hold patient identifiable information without patient consent under section 251 of the NHS Act 2006. The applications for approval were reviewed by the NIGB Ethics and Confidentiality Committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.