Zografos, Laurie J.
Andrews, Elizabeth
Wolin, Daniel L.
Calingaert, Brian
Davenport, Eric K.
Hollis, Kelly A.
Schmidt-Ott, Ursula Maria
Petraro, Paul
Vassilev, Zdravko P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bayer AG
Article History
First Online: 26 April 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This study was performed under a research contract between RTI Health Solutions and Bayer AG and was funded by Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany. The contract between RTI Health Solutions and the sponsor includes independent publication rights. Medical writing assistance was funded by Bayer AG. Open access fees were paid by Bayer AG.
: Elizabeth Andrews, Brian Calingaert, Eric Davenport, Kelly Hollis, Patrick Murphy, Daniel Wolin, and Laurie Zografos are salaried employees of RTI Health Solutions, which received funding from Bayer AG to conduct this study. The contract between RTI Health Solutions and the sponsor includes independent publication rights. RTI International conducts work for government, public, and private organizations, including pharmaceutical companies. Ursula Maria Schmidt-Ott and Zdravko P. Vassilev are salaried employees of Bayer, the study sponsor. Paul Petraro was a salaried employee of Bayer at the time this study was conducted.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the applicable institutional review board and ethics committees and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.