Ibrahim, Hussein
Liu, Xiaoxuan
Rivera, Samantha Cruz
Moher, David
Chan, An-Wen
Sydes, Matthew R.
Calvert, Melanie J.
Denniston, Alastair K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7849-0087
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (ISSF 859057)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2020
Accepted: 8 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable. However, throughout the manuscript, references are made to SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI which both received ethical approval from the University of Birmingham (ERN_19-1100).
: Not applicable.
: MJC is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator and receives funding from the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre and NIHR ARC West Midlands at the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Health Data Research UK, Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation), Macmillan Cancer Support, UCB Pharma. The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care. MJC has also received personal fees from Astellas, Takeda, Merck, Daiichi Sankyo, Glaukos, GSK, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) outside the submitted work. DM is funded by a University Research Chair (uOttawa). All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.