Terai, Shuji
Buchanan-Hughes, Amy
Ng, Alvin
Lee, I-Heng
Hasegawa, Ken https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-3630
Funding for this research was provided by:
Gilead Sciences
Article History
Received: 11 November 2020
Accepted: 2 January 2021
First Online: 26 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Amy Buchanan-Hughes and Alvin Ng are employees of Costello Medical, which was funded by Gilead Sciences to provide data analysis, research, writing and editorial services for this manuscript. I-Heng Lee and Ken Hasegawa are employees of Gilead Sciences. Shuji Terai has no conflicts of interests to declare.
: Patient data are de-identified at the hospital level before being incorporated into the Medical Data Vision (MDV) database, and the medical claims data retrieved from the database for this study were unlinkable to individual patients. Furthermore, as there was no active enrolment, follow up, or direct data collection from individuals, ethics committee approval for this study was not necessary.