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Article History

Received: 4 July 2024

Accepted: 9 August 2024

First Online: 20 November 2024

Declarations

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: RG has received grants for the evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of medicines and medical devices from the National Institute of Public Health, Japan since 2019, which supported the language editing fee and supported the article publication charge. The funder did not participate in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, review, or approval, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Other authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.

: This study used anonymized data from an existing claims database, and the requirements for informed consent and ethical and institutional review board approval were waived.

: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.

: Informed consent was not necessary because of the retrospective nature of the study, which used an existing anonymized claims database. Therefore, the requirement for written informed consent was waived.