Footnotes

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• Contributors DM drafted the article with contributions from SL and DK. All authors approved the final manuscript.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests DM was the Emergency Medicine Journal decision editor that handled the manuscript under discussion.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.