Acknowledgments Author contributions. All authors (K.V., V.R., D.C., and M.A.-M.) formulated and designed the analysis and contributed to data analysis. K.V. and M.A.-M. searched for and extracted data and evaluated the quality of the evidence. All authors contributed to and revised the submitted version of the paper. Funding. We are grateful to the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) for supporting this work and that of the University of Aberdeen. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
This research was funded by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS) and responsive opportunity funding from the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI). ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
FUNDING This research was funded by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS) and responsive opportunity funding from the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI). ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project benefited from valuable collaborations of experts and institutions: National Children's Bureau (the United Kingdom), Companhia de Ideias (Portugal), Komunikujeme (Czech Republic) and Eurecat and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain). The authors thank the teachers, parents and students of each four-participating countries for their enthusiastic participation in this study. This study project was funded by the European Commission (European Directorate General HEALTH—December 19, 2012). This funder did not play a role in the Spanish study design, data collection, study management, data analysis, data interpretation, article writing or decision to submit the report for publication. This article in journal has been possible with the support of the Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the European Union (UE) and the European Social Fund (ESF) (2021 FI_B1 00160). ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
Acknowledgements We are grateful to Thomas Walker and Rebecca Albrow at NICE for their thoughtful comments on earlier versions of the economic model and to the NICE Diagnostic Committee for their critical review of our identifed evidence. We are also grateful for the advice and clinical guidance received from the NICE Specialist Advisory Group for DG19 and to Peter S Hall and Alison F Smith (on behalf of the team) for providing early versions of their economic model that was instrumental in the development and structuring of the model used in this study. A big thank goes also to Lara Kemp for her secretarial support and patience throughout the study. The results presented in this paper have not been published previously in any academic journals, nor have they been submitted elsewhere. This work has informed the development of NICE guidance for diagnostic testing for AKI (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/dg39) and a full report to the funder describing the totality of this work will be published in the NIHR, HTA mono‑ graph series in due course. Funding The fndings presented in this manuscript are part of a broader research project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and com‑missioned through the NICE Diagnostic Assessment Programme (project no 12/88/97). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of NICE, the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The Health Economics Research Unit and the Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, are funded by the Chief Scientist Ofce of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
Funding National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme. Acknowledgments This work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Programme (project no 17/68/01). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR HTA Programme, or the Department of Health and Social Care, UK. The funders were not actively involved in the research process at any stage. The study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the manuscript; and decision to submit for publication were performed independent of the funders. The Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. The Section of Endocrinology and Investigative Medicine at Imperial College London is funded by grants from the Medical Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, NIHR, an Integrative Mammalian Biology Capacity Building Award, an FP7-HEALTH-2009-241592 EuroCHIP grant, and is supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Funding Scheme. The following authors are also funded as follows: NIHR Research Professorship (WSD), NIHR post-doctoral fellowship (CNJ). SBhasin receives National Institutes of Health research grant funding. The authors are grateful to Prakash Abraham, Alison Avenell, Craig Ramsay, Graham Scotland, Neil Scott, and Finlay MacKenzie for their advice; and to the many individuals from academia and industry who helped in the conduct of this study. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
