Laliberté, François
Raut, Monika
Yang, Xiaoqin
Germain, Guillaume
Nahar, Akash
Desai, Kaushal D.
MacKnight, Sean D.
Sen, Shuvayu S.
Duh, Mei Sheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck Sharp and Dohme
Article History
First Online: 7 December 2020
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: This study was funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA.
: This study was funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. MR, XY, AN, SSS, and KDD are employees of Merck & Co., Inc. FL, GG, and SDM are employees of Groupe d’analyse, Ltée, a consulting company that has received research funds from Merck & Co., Inc., to conduct this study. MSD is an employee of Analysis Group, Inc., a consulting company that has received research funds from Merck & Co., Inc., to conduct this study.
: The data for study participants were de-identified and complied with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); therefore, no reviews by an institutional review board were required.
: The present investigation was based on administrative claims data and does not contain any procedures with human participants performed by any of the authors.
: All authors and persons named in the <i>Acknowledgements</i> section have given permission to be named in the article.
: Claims data used in the present study are accessible through the Symphony Health’s IDV® (Integrated Dataverse) (from July 2014 to June 2018).
: All analyses were conducted using SAS Enterprise Guide Version 7.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA).
: All authors were responsible for the study design and the interpretation of the study results. François Laliberté, Guillaume Germain, and Sean D. MacKnight were responsible for the data analysis. All authors reviewed the manuscript for intellectual content and approved the final draft. Medical writing assistance was provided by Christine Tam, an employee of Groupe d’analyse, Ltée, which received research funds from Merck & Co., Inc., to conduct this study.