Donegan, Katherine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3488-9130
Owen, Rebecca
Bird, Helena
Burch, Brian
Smith, Alex
Tregunno, Phil
Article History
First Online: 3 May 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. Access to the CVW Longitudinal Module was provided by Commonwealth Informatics Inc. The CVW Longitudinal software is engineered by Commonwealth Informatics, Inc., and builds on research performed by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
: At the time of the study, all authors (Katherine Donegan, Rebecca Owen, Helena Bird, Brian Burch, Alex Smith, and Phil Tregunno) were employed by the MHRA, which is an Executive Agency of the Department of Health, but have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the contents of this study. The MHRA has statutory responsibility to monitor the safety of medicinal products on the UK market, and the study was undertaken independently of the Department of Health.