Methodology and reporting characteristics of studies using interrupted time series design in healthcare

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors for the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript. The Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, is core funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The RoboCOS Study : Development of an international core outcome set for the comprehensive evaluation of patient, surgeon, organisational and population level impacts of robotic assisted surgery

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank sincerely all those who contributed to the interviews, the focus group, the Delphi survey and the consensus meeting, and Paul Manson (Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen) for helping to retrieve full text copies of reports identified by the literature search. We also thank HSRU (Health Services Research Unit) at University of Aberdeen for providing support for this work. Funding: The study was funded from NHS Grampian Endowment Fund and the University of Aberdeen. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Copyright: © 2023 Robertson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Effects of weight loss interventions for adults who are obese on mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer : a systematic review and meta-analysis

We thank Associate Professor Andrew Grey for helping to resolve discrepancies in data extraction and interpretation for cardiovascular events and cancer events. We thank trialists from 16 studies for clarifying or providing additional information for this review [Andrews 2011, Aveyard 2016, Bennett 2012, de Vos 2014, Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study 2009, Goodwin 2014, Green 2015, Horie 2016, Hunt (FFIT) 2014, Katula 2013, Li (Da Qing) 2014, Logue 2005, Ma 2013, O’Neil 2016, Rejeski (CLIP) 2011, Uusitupa 1993] and also others who provided information, but their trials were later found not to fulfil our inclusion criteria. Funding: The Health Services Research Unit is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Reducing surgical site infection rates in colorectal surgery – a quality improvement approach to implementing a comprehensive bundle

Funding Information: Funding for project management time was received from the Scottish Patient Safety Programme.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The impact of methodological and temporal variation on infarct size quantification in acute myocardial infarction with late enhancement CMR

Funding This project was funded by a grant from the MRC(UK).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Surgery for women with endometrioma prior to in vitro fertilisation: proposal for a feasible multicentre randomised clinical trial in the UK

Acknowledgements We thank all clinicians who filled the questionnaire, all patients and their partners who participated in interviews and focus groups, all women who helped to design WP3, theStaff at Aberdeen Fertility Centre who helped in recruiting for the qualitative study, Prof. Graeme McLennan (Director Clinical Trials Unit) and Prof. Shaun Treweek (Health Services Research Unit) in Aberdeen for their valuable suggestions in the design of the proposed trial, Dr Tarek Gelbaya for personal communication and Dr C Tomosseti for personal communication. Funding The study was funded by NHS Grampian pump priming endowment fund (RG14437-12).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

ScotCap - A large observational cohort study

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank all patients and sites that participated in the ScotCap evaluation. Funding Information: This study was funded by the Scottish Government which had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis or interpretation of results, or writing of this report. We would like to thank all patients and sites that participated in the ScotCap evaluation. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

A core outcome set for symptomatic uncomplicated gallstone disease

Funding This work was supported by a National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme Grant (14/192/71). The work was also supported by an NHS Grampian Endowment grant (16/11/006). K.G. held a Medical Research Council UK Methodology Fellowship during the delivery of this project (MR/L01193X/1). The HSRU, Institute of Applied Health Sciences (University of Aberdeen) is core funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. Acknowledgements The study team thank the DelphiManager team for support and guidance on use of the Delphi platform; and all participants in the study and organizations that disseminated the survey.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The effect of generic market entry on antibiotic prescriptions in the United States

Acknowledgements C.K. and C.Å. were funded by the DRIVE-AB Consortium. DRIVE-AB is supported by the IMI Joint Undertaking under the DRIVE-AB grant agreement number 115618, the resources of which are composed of financial contributions from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations companies’ in-kind contribution. C.K. and C.Å. were partly supported by the Research Council of Norway through the Global Health and Vaccination Programme (GLOBVAC), project number 234608. K.O. is supported by NOA 06-IDSET160030 from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) under the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the CARB-X award from the Wellcome Trust, but the views expressed herein are not necessarily those of CARB-X or any CARB-X funder. J.H. works for Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, and is core funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. R.L. was supported by 16IPA16092427 from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors, according to the statement above, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD