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Nikki Totton, Steven A Julious, Elizabeth Coates, Dyfrig A Hughes, Jonathan A Cook, Katie Biggs, Catherine Hewitt, Simon Day & Andrew Cook.

Nikki Totton ^1,*, Steven A Julious ¹, Elizabeth Coates ¹, Dyfrig A Hughes ², Jonathan A Cook ³, Katie Biggs ¹, Catherine Hewitt ⁴, Simon Day ⁵, Andrew Cook ⁶

¹ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
² Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
³ Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
⁴ York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
⁵ Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Limited, Buckingham, UK
⁶ Wessex Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: n.v.totton@sheffield.ac.uk

Disclosure of interests of authors

Full disclosure of interests: Completed ICMJE forms for all authors, including all related interests, are available in the toolkit on the NIHR Journals Library report publication page at https://doi.org/10.3310/BHQZ7691.

Primary conflicts of interest: Dyfrig A Hughes receives support from the Medical Research Council Trials Methodological Research Partnership (TMRP), reference number MR/S014357/1, and is a Health and Care Research Wales (H&CRW) Senior Research Leader, reference number 2021/22. Andrew Cook reports research contracts from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Public Health Research (PHR), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Invention for Innovation (i4i) programmes, payment for which was made to his employer. He also reports reimbursement for travel and provision of accommodation in March 2019 to attend a workshop on approaches to pancreatic surgery in Miami, FL, USA. Andrew Cook is also a member of the Data Monitoring Committee of the Diabetes Prevention – Long Term Multimethod Assessment 2 (DIPLOMA-2) study. Nikki Totton received financial support (paid to institution) for protected time on the project, as well as consumables and dissemination through conferences.