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Challenges of developing, conducting, analysing and reporting a COVID-19 study as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds: an online co-autoethnographic study

Roshan das Nair, Rachael Hunter, Afagh Garjani Orcid Logo, Rod Middleton Orcid Logo, Katherine A Tuite-Dalton, Richard S Nicholas, Nikos Evangelou

BMJ Open, Volume: 11, Issue: 6, Start page: e048788

Swansea University Authors: Rachael Hunter, Rod Middleton Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-048788

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Objectives: To capture the complexities and unique experience of a newly formed multidisciplinary and multicentre research team developing and deploying a COVID-19 study and to identify lessons learnt.Design: Co-autoethnographic study.Setting: Staff at two UK academic institutions, a national charit...

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