Shah, Drishti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5866-7743
Allen, Lindsay
Zheng, Wanhong
Madhavan, Suresh S.
Wei, Wenhui
LeMasters, Traci J.
Sambamoorthi, Usha
Article History
Accepted: 8 April 2021
First Online: 27 April 2021
Declarations
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: No funding was received for the study. The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies related to this study or article.
: Drishti Shah and Suresh Madhavan were employees at West Virginia University at the time of the study. Wenhui Wei is an employee at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The authors report no conflict of interest.
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: This retrospective database study used commercial claims data from the Optum Clinformatics<sup>®</sup> Data Mart (Eden Prairie, MN, USA). The claims data that support the findings of this study are from a proprietary administrative claims database and are not publicly available. However, summary data tables are available from the authors upon reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: DS was responsible for developing the initial concept and study design. All authors contributed to the subsequent conception, and design of the final study. WZ provided clinical insights, reviewed and approved the clinical algorithms and diagnosis codes used in the current study. DS and US conducted the statistical analyses. The first draft of the manuscript was written by DS. All authors worked on successive iterations<i>,</i> read and approved the final manuscript.