Confidentiality

All patients' names and the data obtained from patient medical records will be kept confidential. Patients will be identified through a number assigned to them at study enrolment by the coordinator at each hospital. When required by the hospital ethics committee, patients who participate in the 6-month follow-up will be informed that information about them is being entered into the GRACE registry and their consent will be obtained and recorded. Patients will be told that they are free to refuse to answer follow-up questions without affecting their medical care. They will be told that all study findings will be handled in strictest confidence. Where mandated by national law or local hospital regulation, ethics committees in the collaborating hospitals will be required to approve the study protocol before a hospital can participate.

Professor Joel Gore "strictly confidential"

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