Whittaker, Hannah R.
Torkpour, Aria
Quint, Jennifer
Funding for this research was provided by:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Article History
Received: 3 August 2023
Accepted: 3 January 2024
First Online: 18 January 2024
Declarations
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: CPRD has NHS Health Research Authority (HRA) Research Ethics Committee (REC) approval to allow the collection and release of anonymised primary care data for observational research [NHS HRA REC reference number: 05/MRE04/87]. Each year CPRD obtains Sect. 251 regulatory support through the HRA Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG), to enable patient identifiers, without accompanying clinical data, to flow from CPRD contributing GP practices in England to NHS Digital, for the purposes of data linkage [CAG reference number: 21/CAG/0008]. The protocol for this research was approved by CPRD’s Research Data Governance (RDG) Process (protocol number: 22_002425) and the approved protocol is available upon request. Linked pseudonymised data was provided for this study by CPRD. Data is linked by NHS Digital, the statutory trusted third party for linking data, using identifiable data held only by NHS Digital. Informed consent for this study was not applicable. Rather, select general practices from CPRD consent to this process at a practice level with individual patients having the right to opt-out.
: Not applicable.
: HW reports Grants from BRC outside the submitted work. AT has no competing interests. JQ reports Grants from BHF Data Science Centre, MRCm HDR UK, GSK, Asthma and Lung, AZ, Evidera, and Insemed outside of the submitted work and BI for this submitted work.