Eggleston, Karen
Chen, Brian K.
Chen, Chih-Hung
Chen, Ying Isabel
Feenstra, Talitha
Iizuka, Toshiaki
Lam, Janet Tin Kei
Leung, Gabriel M.
Lu, Jui-fen Rachel
Rodriguez-Sanchez, Beatriz
Struijs, Jeroen N.
Quan, Jianchao https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-8512
Newhouse, Joseph P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (Faculty research award)
Abe Fellowship Program
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Bilateral Open Partnership Joint Research Projects)
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (27112518)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (100-2632-H-182-001-MY2, 104-2918-I-182-002)
Article History
Received: 18 July 2019
Accepted: 27 January 2020
First Online: 20 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors have nothing to disclose.
: The analysis for Japan was reviewed and approved by the Stanford University Institutional Review Board (IRB). For the Netherlands, since this research concerned analysis on secondary and fully anonymous data, no METC approval was required according to Dutch law. The analysis plan was reviewed and approved by both data sources, for VEKTIS by all Dutch health care insurers and for Zodiac by the Zodiac board. The Hong Kong analyses were approved by the seven Hong Kong Hospital Authority cluster IRBs. The analysis for Taiwan was approved by the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital IRB.