Digital Informed Consent: Modernising Information Sharing in Surgery to Empower Patients.

"Declarations Conflicts of interestSimon L Parsons is a company director for EIDO Healthcare Limited. None of the other authors has a direct conflict of interest to declare. Ethical statementThe study proposal was appraised by the confidentiality advisory group: 16/CAG/0045, with public and patient involvement, and research ethics committee application: 16/SW/0088. It was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02810860, and NUH research and innovation: 15GS002. Conflicts of interest Simon L Parsons is a company director for EIDO Healthcare Limited. None of the other authors has a direct conflict of interest to declare."

"Funding This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number MR/K00414X/1]; and Arthritis Research UK [grant number 19891]. Prita Daliya was a recipient of a Research Fellowship funded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and EIDO Healthcare Limited."

"The study was performed as part of a larger PhD project sponsored by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, through a collaboration with EIDO Healthcare Limited and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The study proposal was appraised by the confidentiality advisory group: 16/CAG/0045, with public and patient involvement, and ethics committee approval: 16/SW/0088. Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from participants virtually on the digital platform. The study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02810860) and was conducted and reported in accordance with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines []."