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Barnaby C Reeves, Leila Rooshenas, Rhiannon C Macefield, Mark Woodward, Nicky J Welton, Benjamin R Waterhouse, Andrew D Torrance, Sean Strong, Dimitrios Siassakos, William Seligman, Chris A Rogers, Lloyd Rickard, Anne Pullyblank, Caroline Pope, Thomas D Pinkney, Samir Pathak, Anwar Owais, Jamie O’Callaghan, Stephen O’Brien, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Khaldoun Nadi, Charlotte E Murkin, Tonia Munder, Tom Milne, David Messenger, Christel M McMullan, Jonathan M Mathers, Matthew Mason, Morwena Marshall, Richard Lovegrove, Robert J Longman, Jessica Lloyd, Jeffrey Lim, Kathryn Lee, Vijay Korwar, Daniel Hughes, George Hill, Rosie Harris, Mohammed Hamdan, Hannah Gould Brown, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, James Glasbey, Caroline Fryer, Lucy Ellis, Daisy Elliott, Jo C Dumville, Tim Draycott, Jenny L Donovan, David Cotton, Joanna Coast, Madeleine Clout, Melanie J Calvert, Benjamin E Byrne, Oliver D Brown, Natalie S Blencowe, Katarzyna D Bera, Joanne Bennett, Richard Bamford, Danya Bakhbakhi, Muhammad Atif, Kate Ashton, Elizabeth Armstrong, Lazaros Andronis, Piriyankan Ananthavarathan & Jane M Blazeby.

Barnaby C Reeves ¹, Leila Rooshenas ², Rhiannon C Macefield ², Mark Woodward ³, Nicky J Welton ², Benjamin R Waterhouse ⁴, Andrew D Torrance ⁵, Sean Strong ^2,4, Dimitrios Siassakos ^2,4, William Seligman ⁴, Chris A Rogers ¹, Lloyd Rickard ⁶, Anne Pullyblank ⁴, Caroline Pope ¹, Thomas D Pinkney ⁷, Samir Pathak ³, Anwar Owais ³, Jamie O’Callaghan ³, Stephen O’Brien ⁴, Dmitri Nepogodiev ^6,7, Khaldoun Nadi ⁴, Charlotte E Murkin ^2,3, Tonia Munder ³, Tom Milne ⁴, David Messenger ³, Christel M McMullan ⁸, Jonathan M Mathers ⁸, Matthew Mason ³, Morwena Marshall ³, Richard Lovegrove ⁹, Robert J Longman ³, Jessica Lloyd ⁴, Jeffrey Lim ³, Kathryn Lee ³, Vijay Korwar ⁴, Daniel Hughes ³, George Hill ⁴, Rosie Harris ¹, Mohammed Hamdan ^3,4, Hannah Gould Brown ³, Rachael Gooberman-Hill ¹⁰, James Glasbey ³, Caroline Fryer ⁶, Lucy Ellis ¹, Daisy Elliott ², Jo C Dumville ¹¹, Tim Draycott ⁴, Jenny L Donovan ^2,12, David Cotton ³, Joanna Coast ², Madeleine Clout ¹, Melanie J Calvert ^8,13, Benjamin E Byrne ², Oliver D Brown ³, Natalie S Blencowe ^2,3, Katarzyna D Bera ¹⁴, Joanne Bennett ⁴, Richard Bamford ³, Danya Bakhbakhi ⁴, Muhammad Atif ³, Kate Ashton ¹, Elizabeth Armstrong ⁴, Lazaros Andronis ¹⁵, Piriyankan Ananthavarathan ³, Jane M Blazeby ^2,3,*

¹ Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, Department of Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
² Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
³ University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
⁴ North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
⁵ Department of Surgery, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, West Bromwich, UK
⁶ University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
⁷ Academic Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
⁸ Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
⁹ Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcester, UK
¹⁰ Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Department of Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
¹¹ Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
¹² National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
¹³ Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
¹⁴ Clinical Academic Graduate School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
¹⁵ Health Economics Unit, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: j.m.blazeby@bristol.ac.uk