Okoli, Grace N. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-4058
Myles, Puja http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-890X
Murray-Thomas, Tarita
Shepherd, Hilary http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-4155
Wong, Ian C. K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8242-0014
Edwards, Duncan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-2108
Article History
Accepted: 28 June 2021
First Online: 22 July 2021
Declarations
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: GO is funded by the <u>National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)</u>. PM, TMT and HS are employees of CPRD. CPRD is jointly sponsored by the UK government’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the NIHR. As a not-for-profit UK government body, CPRD seeks to recoup the cost of delivering its research services to academic, industry and government researchers through research user licence fees. For the writing of this manuscript, the authors received no funding.
: GO, IW and DE are members of the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency database research group, which is a non-statutory expert advisory body giving advice on research-related requests to access data from the CPRD. PM, TMT and HS are employed by CPRD.
: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
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: GO contributed to conception, planning, identification of data sources, presentation of data and writing. PM contributed to conception, planning and writing. HS contributed to the presentation of data. TMT contributed to conception, planning and identification of data sources. IW contributed to conception. DE contributed to conception, planning and writing. All authors contributed to editing and approved the final version of the manuscript.