Funding for this research was provided by:
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Article History
Accepted: 16 December 2024
First Online: 17 January 2025
Declarations
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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
: C.M.D. is, in addition to his academic affiliation, employed by Bayer Vital GmbH in Leverkusen, Germany. C.M.D. has never dealt within his industrial affiliation with any products being the subject of evidence transfer. G.P. and D.M. have no conflicts of interest.
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: All data included in the analysis are publicly available on the IQWiG and G-BA websites.
: Please contact the corresponding author for any request for any study materials including codes.
: G.P. and C.M.D. developed the concept of the submitted manuscript and wrote the manuscript together. G.P. gathered the data used. G.P. calculated the statistical analyses and C.M.D. replicated and reviewed them together with D.M. All the three authors act as guarantors of the article.