Sacral nerve stimulation versus the magnetic sphincter augmentation device for adult faecal incontinence: the SaFaRI RCT

Published date: 1 March 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full in Health Technology Assessment; Vol. 25, No. 18. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information. We are indebted to the patients who participated in this trial. We would also like to thank the TSC (Charles Knowles, Doreen McClurg, Graeme MacLennan and Tara Willson), the DMEC (Paul-Antoine LeHur, Natalie Rowland and Lynn Shaw), additional members of the Trial Management Group (Gregory Taylor, Sushil Maslekar, David Meads, Armando Vargas-Palacios, Alison Smith, Debbie Beirne, Adam Douglas, Jacqueline Emkes, Catherine Moriarty, David Protheroe, Jen Lodge and Karen Nugent) and the CTRU Project Team for their important contributions. Sarah Abraham provided assistance during the economic evaluation. Funding Information: Declared competing interests of authors: David G Jayne reports grants from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator awards, and that he was a member of the NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Strategy Group and Prioritisation Group (2015–18) and NIHR Clinical Scientist Awards Panel (2015–2018). He currently sits on the NIHR Advanced Fellowship Panel (2018 to present) and is a member of the NIHR i4i Product Development Awards Committee (2019 to present). Julia M Brown reports grants from NIHR Senior Investigator awards and the NIHR Funding Committee during the conduct of the study, and declares membership of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Remit and Competitiveness Group (2016 to present), Clinical Trial Units funded by NIHR, the HTA Funding Committee Policy Group (2016 to present) and the HTA Clinical Evaluation and Trials Committee (2016 to present). Claire Hulme was a member of the NIHR HTA Commissioning Board (2013–17). Steven Brown was a member of the HTA Commissioning Board (2018–19). David Meads was a member of the NIHR HTA Elective and Emergency Specialist Care (EESC) Methods Group (2014–17) and NIHR HTA EESC Panel (2013–17). He is a member of a NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research subpanel (2017 to present). Funding Information: Funding: This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full in Health Technology Assessment; Vol. 25, No. 18. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information. Funding Information: The research reported in this issue of the journal was funded by the HTA programme as project number 12/35/07. The contractual start date was in January 2014. The draft report began editorial review in June 2019 and was accepted for publication in October 2020. The authors have been wholly responsible for all data collection, analysis and interpretation, and for writing up their work. The HTA editors and publisher have tried to ensure the accuracy of the authors’ report and would like to thank the reviewers for their constructive comments on the draft document. However, they do not accept liability for damages or losses arising from material published in this report. Funding Information: 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 HTA programme or the Department of Health and Social Care. 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 HTA programme or the Department of Health and Social Care. Publisher Copyright: © Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2021.

Keywords: FAECAL INCONTINENCE, FENIXTM, HEALTH ECONOMICS, RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL, SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION, SURGERY

Local EPrints ID: 448649

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/448649

DOI: doi:10.3310/hta25180

ISSN: 1366-5278

PURE UUID: 2854ceea-9af0-4c13-a04f-ce4c658407a3

Date deposited: 29 Apr 2021 16:30

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