About the Authors
- Jenni Hislop
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Affiliation Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Temitope E. Adewuyi
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Affiliation Academic Urology Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Luke D. Vale
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Affiliation Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Kirsten Harrild
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Affiliation Population Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Cynthia Fraser
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Affiliation Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Tara Gurung
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Affiliation Warwick Evidence, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Douglas G. Altman
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Andrew H. Briggs
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Affiliation Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Peter Fayers
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Affiliations Population Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Craig R. Ramsay
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Affiliation Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- John D. Norrie
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Affiliation Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Ian M. Harvey
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Affiliation Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Brian Buckley
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Affiliation National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Jonathan A. Cook
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* E-mail: jonathan.cook@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Affiliations Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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¶Membership of the DELTA group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JAC CRR DGA AHB PF IMH BB CF JDN LDV. Performed the experiments: JH JAC LDV TG TEA KH CF. Analyzed the data: JH JAC LDV. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: JH LDV JAC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JAC DGA CRR AHB PF IMH BB LDV JDN JH TG TEA KH CF. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: JAC DGA CRR AHB PF IMH BB JDN JH TG TEA KH CF LDV. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: JAC DGA CRR AHB PF IMH BB JDN JH TG TEA KH CF LDV.