A reply to “Letter to the editor in response to the article ‘To assess the attitudes of Irish patients attending a pigmented lesion clinic and healthcare staff employed in an academic hospital to biobanking, a quantitative study’”

Stephanie Bowe conceived and designed the analysis, collected the data, contributed data or analysis tools, performed the analysis, wrote the paper. Claire Quigley collected data at pigmented lesion clinics via paper forms. Liana Victory collected data at pigmented lesion clinics via paper forms. Eoin Storan supervised the project and edited the final paper.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the MMUH and Mater Private Hospital Dublin Institutional Review Board at a meeting in October 2022, with the project reference number: 1/378/2322.