Funding for this research was provided by:
Janssen Research and Development
Article History
First Online: 14 January 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Joel Swerdel, Jenna M. Reps, Daniel Fife, and Patrick Ryan were full-time employees of Janssen Research & Development LLC at the time the study was conducted. They own stock, stock options, and pension rights from the company.
: This work was supported by Janssen Research & Development LLC, Raritan, NJ, USA.
: The Optum and IBM MarketScan databases used in this study were reviewed by the New England IRB and were determined to be exempt from broad IRB approval as this research project did not involve human subject research.
: Not applicable.
: The source data for this study were licensed by Johnson & Johnson from IBM MarketScan and Optum, and hence we are not allowed to share the licensed data publicly. However, the same data used in this study are available for purchase by contracting with the database owners, IBM MarketScan Research Databases (contact at: ExternalRef removed marketplace/marketscan-research-databases) and Optum (contact at: ExternalRef removed solutions/data-analytics/data/real-world-data- analytics-a-cpl/claims-data.html). The authors did not have any special access privileges that other parties who license the data and contract with IBM MarketScan and Optum would not have.