Alsumali, Adnan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5139-3583
Djatche, Laurence M
Briggs, Andrew http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0777-1997
Liu, Rongzhe http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8316-6089
Diakite, Ibrahim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7151-4330
Patel, Dipen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9793-7611
Wang, Yufei
Lautsch, Dominik http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-1817
Funding for this research was provided by:
merck
Article History
Accepted: 16 September 2021
First Online: 8 October 2021
Declarations
:
: The design and conduct of this study and manuscript development were funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA.
: Rongzhe Liu, Ibrahim Diakite, and Dipen Patel are employees of OPEN Health, which received funding from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, to conduct the study. Adnan Alsumali, Laurence M. Djatche, Dominik Lautsch, and Yufei Wang were employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, and may hold stock in Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. Andrew Briggs received compensation from Merck & Co., Inc., as a consultant for this work. He has also been contracted by Bayer, Eisai, Janssen, Novartis, Sword Health, Amgen, and Daichii Sankyo and received compensation outside of the submitted work.
: The corresponding author has full access to all the data in the study. Data sharing is available upon request.
: The cost-effectiveness model was developed in Microsoft Excel 365 (Microsoft Corporation). Any additional information about model programming is available from the corresponding author upon request.
: This study relied on VICTORIA estimates and published literature as analysis inputs, therefore Ethics Committee approval was not required.
: Patients included in VICTORIA provided informed consent. This model did not involve human subjects.
: Patients included in VICTORIA provided informed consent. This model did not involve human subjects
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.