Denton, Christopher P. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3975-8938
Laird, Bee
Moros, Lizette
Luna Flores, Jose Luis
Funding for this research was provided by:
Boehringer Ingelheim (N/A)
Article History
Received: 18 June 2020
Revised: 13 August 2020
Accepted: 24 August 2020
First Online: 11 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: C Denton has received research funding from Inventiva, GlaxoSmithKline and CSL Behring. He has received consultancy payments from Bayer, Inventiva, GlaxoSmithKline and CSL Behring, Boehringer Ingelheim, Actelion, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis. L Moros and JL Luna Flores are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim. B Laird was a contractor to Boehringer Ingelheim at the time this research was conducted. This study was supported by Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (BI). The authors meet the criteria for authorship as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The authors did not receive compensation related to the development of the manuscript. Writing support was provided by John Redrobe, PhD, of Hamell Communications and editorial support was provided by Islay Steele, PhD, of Nucleus Global, which was contracted and funded by BI. BI was given the opportunity to review the manuscript for medical and scientific accuracy as well as intellectual property considerations.
: The research outline for this study was discussed with the Reading Independent Ethics Committee (UK) who advised that ethics approval was not required. Additionally, and per the European Pharmaceutical Market Research Organisation (EphMRA) Code of Conduct 2019, this research was classified as market research and therefore not does not require ethics committee approval (includes Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the USA).
: All participants provided written, informed consent before participating in the study.
: Patient consent was obtained for the use of anonymised data.
: The sponsor reviewed the design of the study and the proposed methods of data collection but was not involved in the analysis of data. The sponsor also reviewed the results and interpretation of the data, and reviewed and commented on all drafts of the manuscript.