Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Technology Assessment Programme (12/196/08)
Article History
Received: 22 March 2018
Accepted: 1 November 2018
First Online: 19 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the South Central Research Ethics Committee (reference 15/SC/0019). The University of Oxford is the sponsor. The trial is registered with the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trials database ISRCTN, reference number 13517704.Patients identified by the screening tool as potentially suitable for inclusion will be given information about the study and invited to discuss the study with a member of the research team. This will take place no more than 4 weeks prior to the date of surgery. Informed consent will be taken prior to surgery; however, the final decision about inclusion and recruitment to the trial will be made on the third post-operative day, when potential participants will either have their eligibility confirmed or may be excluded if they have had serious perioperative complications.
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