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Disclosure of Interest:
The authors declare there are no conflicts of interest
Contribution of authors:
CRW conceived the idea, collated data and was the primary writer of the
paper. L Rose coordinated data gathering, clinical practice and
contributed to the paper writing. KMR coordinated the UK-WHO data
analysis and contributed to the paper writing. JH performed all
statistical analysis and contributed to the paper writing.
Details of Ethics approval:
As this study is a secondary use of anonymised data (see line 84)
collected by staff within a care team in the course of care for their
own patients or clients (without an intention to use it for research at
the time of collection) ethics committee approval was not required.
Funding: The statistician’s funding was obtained from UHPT
Research and Development generic funding. No other funding was required.
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