Yan, Vincent K. C.
Li, Hang-Long
Wei, Li
Knapp, Martin R. J.
Wong, Ian C. K.
Chan, Esther W. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7602-9470
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Hong Kong
Article History
Accepted: 17 January 2023
First Online: 25 February 2023
Declarations
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: This study was supported through internal seed funding from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.
: ICKW reports personal fees and non-financial support from IQVIA, outside the submitted work. EWC has received honorarium from the Hospital Authority, research grants from Narcotics Division of the Security Bureau of HKSAR, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Australia), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Research Fund Secretariat of the Food and Health Bureau (HMRF, HKSAR), Research Grants Council (RGC, HKSAR), Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, RGA and Takeda outside the submitted work. All other authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was exempt from ethics approval by the Institutional Review Board of The University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong West Cluster of the Hospital Authority.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: Source data was obtained under license from IQVIA: IQVIA-MIDAS monthly sales data, 2008–2018; all rights reserved. The aggregated datasets generated and analysed during the current study will be available from the corresponding author upon request.
: Not applicable.
: EWC, ICKW, and VKCY conceptualised the study. EWC and IWCK provided resources, supervised the study, and acquired the data. VKCY conducted the formal analysis and wrote the original draft. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.