Garal-Pantaler, Elena http://orcid.org/0009-0005-5285-6913
Schultze, Michael
Georgiou, Mary Elizabeth
Pignot, Marc
Gairy, Kerry
Hunnicutt, Jacob N. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-0272
Funding for this research was provided by:
GSK (GSK213737)
Article History
Received: 11 August 2023
Accepted: 26 October 2023
First Online: 25 November 2023
Declarations
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: Elena Garal-Pantaler is an employee of Team Gesundheit GmbH. Michael Schultze and Marc Pignot are employees of ZEG – Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GmbH, which was contracted by GSK to conduct this study. Mary Elizabeth Georgiou and Jacob N Hunnicutt are employees of GSK and hold stocks and shares in the company. Kerry Gairy was an employee of GSK at the time this study was conducted and holds stocks and shares in the company (current affiliation: AstraZeneca, Global Market Access and Pricing, Cambridge, UK).
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. Permission was granted for this specific use of the Betriebskrankenkassen German Sickness Fund database. All methods with respect to data acquisition/extraction/preparation/verification were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. As this study utilized data that was de-identified and anonymized, it was deemed that the study did not require review/approval from an institutional review board or collection of informed consent.