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Table 2.

Schedule of events

	Event	Baseline/Pre‐op	Surgery	3–5 days postop	30 days postop	4–6 weeks postop	90 days postop	1 year postop (UK only)
Clinical assessments/investigations	Clinical examination	✓			✓		✓
	Pre‐operative bloods	✓
	Operative details		✓
	Complications		✓		✓		✓
	Trial consent	✓
	Microbiome sub‐study (faecal samples)	✓	✓	✓
	Perfusion sub‐study (CTP and CTA) – OPTIONAL	✓
	Rectal contrast enema scan					✓
Data collection time points	Eligibility CRF	✓
	Baseline CRF	✓
	Operative CRF		✓
	30 days postsurgery f/up CRF				✓
	90 days postsurgery f/up CRF						✓
	1 year postsurgery f/up CRF							✓^a
Participant completed questionnaires	EQ‐5D‐5L	✓			✓		✓	✓^a
	EORTC QLQ‐C30 and QLQ‐CR29	✓			✓		✓	✓^a
	LARS	✓			✓		✓
	Resource use (UK sites only)	✓			✓		✓

CRF, case report form; CTA, CT angiography; CTp, perfusion CT; f/up, follow‐up; LARS, low anterior resection syndrome; postop, postoperative; Pre‐op, preoperative.

Only required if this time point falls before the end of the planned follow‐up period (i.e. 90 days following the last participant's operation).