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  • Acknowledgements The authors wish to acknowledge funding received from the National Children's Research Centre, Crumlin, Dublin 12.

  • Contributors BL and PM conceived the study, conducted the data collection and drafted the manuscript. BL takes responsibility for the overall content as guarantor. DC and PM conducted data collection and contributed to critical revision of the manuscript. CD contributed to critical revision of the manuscript. NO conducted data collection.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.