Al-Saleh, Jamal A.
Albelooshi, Ali A.
Salti, Ammar A.
Farghaly, Mohamed
Ghorab, Ahmed M.
Linga, Sreenivasulu
Ramachandrachar, Badarinath C.
Natarajan, Ashok
Joury, Jean G. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2426-6439
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pfizer
Article History
Received: 7 September 2021
Accepted: 25 October 2021
First Online: 16 November 2021
Declarations
:
: Sponsorship for this study and Rapid Service Fee were funded by Pfizer Gulf FZ LLC.
: Medical writing support was provided by Dr Kavitha Ganesha and assistance with data analyses was provided by Radhika Nijhawan, at Real-World Solutions, IQVIA. Support for this assistance was funded by Pfizer Gulf FZ LLC.
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors criteria for authorship of this article, take responsibility for the integrity of work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.
: JAA-S, AAA, AAS and MF, JGJ and AMG contributed for the concept and design of the final paper. SL, BCR and AN contributed for the concept, design and statistical analysis of the final paper. BCR helped revise the article in response to the reviewer’s comments.
: Jean George Joury and Ahmed Mohamed Ghorab are Pfizer employees and may hold stock or stock options. Dr. Jamal Ali Al-Saleh, Dr. Ali Abbas Albelooshi, Dr. Ammar Amine Salti, Dr. Mohamed Farghaly, Sreenivasulu Linga, Badarinath Chickballapur Ramachandrachar, and Ashok Natarajan have nothing to disclose.
: All local, legal and regulatory guidelines were followed with no involvement of IRB approval or ICF signing, as this study used anonymised patient-level data.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available. Data for this study were made available to the authors through IQVIA (third-party license). The de-identified data of this study were handled by IQVIA Dubai FTE. There is a prior agreement with the Dubai Health Authority that de-identified data set will be kept confidential as there may be legal and ethical restriction with patient sensitive data. We have included all relevant data for this study in the manuscript. We have provided the aggregated data set as a Excel file containing all the analysis outputs for this study, which should consist the “minimal data set”.