The review team gratefully acknowledges the assistance and advice of Dr Adrian White, Honorary University Fellow, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK, and Dr Cath Quinn, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Trials & Health Research – Translational & Stratified Medicine (Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK). We are grateful, too, for intelligence from a study conducted by Anthea Asprey (formerly of Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry). Our understanding of the UK diabetes context was informed by Professor Simon Heller, Professor of Clinical Diabetes, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, and Dr Jackie Elliott, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes and Honorary Consultant, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, UK. We appreciate research findings from two principal investigators on the HSDR research programme: Professor Peter Bower, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (chief investigator of HSDR 11/1014/06141), and Professor Stephanie Taylor, Barts and The London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK (chief investigator of HSDR 11/1014/0429).
Contributions of authors
Andrew Booth (Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice): contributed to the systematic review methodology – conception of the review, review methodology, study selection, data extraction, quality assessment, report writing and consultation with clinical specialists.
Anna Cantrell (Information Specialist): contributed to information retrieval, project management, study selection, data extraction, quality assessment and report writing.
Louise Preston (Information Specialist): contributed to study selection, data extraction, quality assessment and report writing.
Duncan Chambers (Research Fellow): contributed to systematic reviewing, summarising and interpretation.
Elizabeth Goyder (Professor in Public Health, Public Health Medicine): contributed to liaison with clinical specialists and critical reading.
Data sharing statement
All available data can be obtained from the corresponding author.
Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the HS&DR programme or the Department of Health. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the HS&DR programme or the Department of Health.
