Acknowledgements The authors wish to acknowledge the following persons who have helped deliver the ALLEGRO trial: the programming team based in the Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials, for their work in developing the study web portal; Sharon Wren and Zoe Batham for their administrative support; ACCORD in Edinburgh; the Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network (POMCTN) for adopting the trial for promotion; and the local recruiting teams and participants. We are also indebted to the late Professor Kenneth Fearon, University of Edinburgh, for protocol development and study design. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Health Technology Assessment Programme, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NHS or the Department of Health. Funding The trial is funded by the NIHR Health and Technology Assessment programme, project number 15/130/95. The funding body had no role in the design of the study, collection of data or the writing of this paper, nor will the funding body have a role in analysis, interpretation of data or in writing future manuscripts. The co-sponsors are University of Edinburgh & Lothian Health Board (AC- CORD), The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, Ed- inburgh EH16 4TJ.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
