Appukkuttan, Sreevalsa
Tangirala, Krishna
Babajanyan, Svetlana
Wen, Lonnie
Simmons, Stacey
Shore, Neal
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
Article History
First Online: 22 October 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This study was funded by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals.
: SA, SB, LW, and SS are employees of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. KT was an employee of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals at the time the study was conducted. NS is an employee of Carolina Urologic Research Institute and served as a paid consultant to Bayer.
: Ethical or institutional review board approval was not obtained as this retrospective claims study was completed using already available data.
: Informed consent was not necessary as data sources utilized in this retrospective review were fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 in relation to the use of deidentified patient data.