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Christopher J McDermott, Mike J Bradburn, Chin Maguire, Cindy L Cooper, Wendy O Baird, Susan K Baxter, Judith Cohen, Hannah Cantrill, Simon Dixon, Roger Ackroyd, Simon Baudouin, Andrew Bentley, Richard Berrisford, Stephen Bianchi, Stephen C Bourke, Roy Darlison, John Ealing, Mark Elliott, Patrick Fitzgerald, Simon Galloway, Hisham Hamdalla, C Oliver Hanemann, Philip Hughes, Ibrahim Imam, Dayalan Karat, Roger Leek, Nick Maynard, Richard W Orrell, Abeezar Sarela, John Stradling, Kevin Talbot, Lyn Taylor, Martin Turner, Anita K Simonds, Tim Williams, Wisia Wedzicha, Carolyn Young & Pamela J Shaw.

Christopher J McDermott ^1,*, Mike J Bradburn ², Chin Maguire ², Cindy L Cooper ², Wendy O Baird ³, Susan K Baxter ³, Judith Cohen ², Hannah Cantrill ², Simon Dixon ⁴, Roger Ackroyd ⁵, Simon Baudouin ⁶, Andrew Bentley ⁷, Richard Berrisford ⁸, Stephen Bianchi ⁹, Stephen C Bourke ¹⁰, Roy Darlison ¹¹, John Ealing ¹², Mark Elliott ¹³, Patrick Fitzgerald ³, Simon Galloway ⁷, Hisham Hamdalla ¹², C Oliver Hanemann ¹⁴, Philip Hughes ¹⁵, Ibrahim Imam ¹⁶, Dayalan Karat ¹⁷, Roger Leek ¹⁸, Nick Maynard ¹⁹, Richard W Orrell ²⁰, Abeezar Sarela ¹³, John Stradling ¹⁹, Kevin Talbot ¹⁹, Lyn Taylor ²¹, Martin Turner ¹⁹, Anita K Simonds ²², Tim Williams ¹⁷, Wisia Wedzicha ²⁰, Carolyn Young ²³, Pamela J Shaw ¹

¹ Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
² Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
³ School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
⁴ Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
⁵ Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK
⁶ Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁷ University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
⁸ Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
⁹ Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
¹⁰ North Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University, North Shields, UK
¹¹ Independent patient and public involvement representative, , UK
¹² Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK
¹³ Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, St James’ University Hospital, Leeds, UK
¹⁴ Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
¹⁵ Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust Peninsula Medical and Dental Schools, Plymouth, UK
¹⁶ South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Devon, UK
¹⁷ Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
¹⁸ Motor Neurone Disease Association, Birmingham, UK
¹⁹ Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
²⁰ The National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
²¹ PAREXEL International Corporation, Sheffield, UK
²² National Institute for Health Research Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
²³ Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: c.j.mcdermott@sheffield.ac.uk