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Janet A Wilson, Deborah D Stocken, Gillian C Watson, Tony Fouweather, Julian McGlashan, Kenneth MacKenzie, Paul Carding, Yakubu Karagama, Meredydd Harries, Stephen Ball, Sadie Khwaja, Declan Costello, Ruth Wood, Jan Lecouturier & James O’Hara.

Janet A Wilson ^1,2,*, Deborah D Stocken ³, Gillian C Watson ⁴, Tony Fouweather ⁵, Julian McGlashan ⁶, Kenneth MacKenzie ⁷, Paul Carding ⁸, Yakubu Karagama ⁹, Meredydd Harries ¹⁰, Stephen Ball ¹¹, Sadie Khwaja ¹², Declan Costello ¹³, Ruth Wood ⁴, Jan Lecouturier ², James O’Hara ¹

¹ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
² Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
³ Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
⁴ Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁵ Biostatistics Research Group, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁶ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
⁷ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK
⁸ Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
⁹ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
¹⁰ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK
¹¹ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK
¹² Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport, UK
¹³ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: j.a.wilson@ncl.ac.uk

Declared competing interests of authors: none