Blotière, Pierre-Olivier http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6857-6781
Damase-Michel, Christine http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5018-0108
Weill, Alain http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8687-9092
Maura, Géric http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6597-5122
Article History
Accepted: 30 August 2021
First Online: 6 October 2021
Declarations
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: No funding was received for this work.
: Pierre-Olivier Blotière, Christine Damase-Michel, Alain Weill and Géric Maura have no conflicts of interest to declare. Pierre-Olivier, Alain Weill, and Géric Maura are employees of the French National Health Insurance (CNAM). Christine Damase-Michel is Associate Professor in Pharmacology, and Hospital Practitioner, at Faculté de Médecine, Université de Toulouse UPS, Inserm CERPOP, CHU, Toulouse, France.
: No additional data are available from the author (French law to access the SNDS;ExternalRef removed). Permanent access to the French healthcare databases is automatically granted to certain government agencies, public institutions and public service authorities; however, temporary access for studies and research is possible upon request to the national health data institute (INDS). All databases used in this study contained anonymous patient records.
: Not applicable.
: All authors approved the final version of this article. Pierre-Olivier Blotière and Géric Maura designed the study and drafted the article, and Pierre-Olivier Blotière also conducted data collection and statistical analysis. All authors contributed substantially to the interpretation of the results. Christine Damase-Michel and Alain Weill provided critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors had full access to all of the study data (including statistical reports and tables) and take full responsibility for the integrity of the data and accuracy of the data analysis.
: This observational study, which was based on the French healthcare databases, was approved by the French Data Protection Agency (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, CNIL) and did not require patient consent or Ethics Committee approval. Patients and/or the public were not involved.
: Not applicable.