Jacquot, Emmanuelle
Collin, Estelle
Ladner, Amy
Tormos, Anita
Hamm, Lynne
Perez-Gutthann, Susana
Gutierrez, Lia
Chirila, Costel
Deltour, Nicolas
Funding for this research was provided by:
Servier
Article History
First Online: 11 July 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Financial support for this study was provided by Servier. Open access fees were paid by Servier.
: This study was performed under a research contract between RTI Health Solutions and Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier and was funded by Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier. The contract between RTI Health Solutions and Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier included independent publication rights. Emmanuelle Jacquot, Estelle Collin and Nicolas Deltour are salaried employees of Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier. Amy Ladner, Anita Tormos, Lynne Hamm, Susana Perez-Gutthann, Lia Gutierrez and Costel Chirila are salaried employees of RTI Health Solutions.
: All appropriate approvals from national and local ethics committees and other competent authorities were obtained for this study.
: For the medical record abstraction (MRA) phase of the study, patients whose medical records were abstracted provided written informed consent (except in France, where only the person not objecting to the processing of his or her personal data for the purposes of the MRA was required). For the survey phase of the study, all participating patients provided written informed consent.