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Accepted: 28 May 2024

First Online: 1 July 2024

Declarations

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: This study was sponsored by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., was involved in the design and conduct of the study; the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

: Jürgen Wasem is Professor for Health Services Management at University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. He received an honorarium for consulting the study concept and quality assurance of data calculations. Yanic Heer was an employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Zurich, Switzerland during completion of the work related to this manuscript. Eleni Karamasioti was an employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Zurich, Switzerland during completion of the work related to this manuscript. Erwan Muros-Le Rouzic is an employee of and a shareholder in F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. Giuseppe Marcelli is an employee of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. Danilo Di Maio is an employee of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. Stefan Braune received honoraria from Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayerns and health maintenance organizations for patient care; and from Biogen, Merck, NeuroTransData, Novartis, and Roche for consulting, project management, clinical studies, and lectures; he also received honoraria and expense compensation as a board member of NeuroTransData. Gisela Kobelt is President of EHE International GmbH and an employee of European Health Economics, Mulhouse, France. Paul Dillon was an employee of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland during completion of the work related to this manuscript and has shares/ownership of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

: Procedures were approved by the ethical committee of the Bavarian Medical Board (Bayerische Landesärztekammer, June 14, 2012, ID 11144) and of the Medical Board North-Rhine (Ärztekammer Nordrhein, April 25, 2017, ID 2017071). The ethical committee states that it “bases its work on the Declaration of the World Medical Association of Helsinki as amended. It takes into account relevant national and international recommendations, including scientific standards” (. In German. Accessed May 24, 2024).

: All patients gave their informed consent to participate in the study.

: The data used in this study are owned by the NeuroTransData registry and sharing of the data is subject to their policies. Any reasonable requests for data access can be directed to the NeuroTransData registry ().

: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Data were collected, analyzed, and interpreted by YH and EK. The first draft of the manuscript was written by PD, GK, EM-LR, GM, DDM, SB, and JW. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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