McFerran, Don http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4395-3405
Hoare, Derek J.
Carr, Simon
Ray, Jaydip
Stockdale, David
Article History
Received: 21 December 2016
Accepted: 6 February 2018
First Online: 13 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable: as this study was a retrospective service evaluation and used only highly anonymised data for the sole purpose of service evaluation, individual consent was not sought, and research ethics committee review was not required [CitationRef removed].
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: DM has paid consultancies with Otonomy and has received payment for trials of drugs for tinnitus (GSK and Autifony) and has received payment for providing tinnitus talks to healthcare professionals and the public. DM has received royalties for books on tinnitus. JR has received payment for trials of drugs for tinnitus (Otonomy and Autifony). DS is Chief Executive of a tinnitus charity (British Tinnitus Association). DJH is funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Programme. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR, the NHS, or the Department of Health.
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