The authors would like to express their gratitude for the work of Margaret Smith and Clare Bankhead at the Primary Care Unit of the University of Oxford for facilitating access to CPRD data on shoulder dislocations. The authors would also like to express their gratitude for the work of Robin May and Emma Boyle at the CPRD for facilitating the internal validation study using GP questionnaires.
Patient and public involvement statement
A patient representative was involved in managing the study and sat on the Project Management Board. Although other patient and public involvement activity was planned in the protocol of this study, the findings have been such that widespread dissemination of the results and the development of specific patient decision-making information for patients has not been possible or worthwhile. The research question remains unanswered and is one of the top 20 James Lind Alliance Surgery for Common Shoulder Conditions41 research priorities.
Contributions of authors
Jonathan L Rees contributed to the conception and design of the study, oversaw the acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of the findings.
Anjali Shah analysed the study data and contributed to the interpretation of the findings.
Katherine Edwards assisted with the literature review, data access and the internal validation of the study.
Maria T Sanchez-Santos assisted with analysing the data and interpreting the findings.
Danielle E Robinson assisted with analysing the data and interpreting the findings.
Antonella Delmestri contributed to the acquisition, cleaning and management of the data.
Andrew Carr contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Nigel Arden contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Sarah E Lamb contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Amar Rangan contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Andrew Judge contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Tim Holt contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Sally Hopewell contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Daniel Prieto-Alhambra contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
Gary Collins analysed the study data and contributed to the interpretation of the study findings.
All authors contributed to the drafting of this report or revising its content and have approved the final version.
Publication
Shah A, Judge A, Delmestri A, Edwards K, Arden NK, Prieto-Alhambra D, et al. Incidence of shoulder dislocations in the UK, 1995–2015: a population-based cohort study. BMJ Open 2017;7:e016112.
Data-sharing statement
All of the available data are included in the report. All queries should be submitted to the corresponding author for consideration.
Patient data
This work uses data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. Using patient data is vital to improve health and care for everyone. There is huge potential to make better use of information from people’s patient records, to understand more about disease, develop new treatments, monitor safety, and plan NHS services. Patient data should be kept safe and secure, to protect everyone’s privacy, and it’s important that there are safeguards to make sure that it is stored and used responsibly. Everyone should be able to find out about how patient data are used. #datasaveslives You can find out more about the background to this citation here: https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/data-citation.
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 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.