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Article History

Accepted: 27 January 2025

First Online: 13 February 2025

Declarations

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: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Mokwon University in South Korea (no. 2023-001).

: The author declares no conflict of interest directly or indirectly related to this work submitted for publication. The author, Hye-Young Kwon, is an editorial board member of PharmacoEconomics Open. She was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.

: No funding was received for conducting this study.

: All data generated or analyzed in this study were strictly restricted by the Korean NHIS. Access to data for the current study was granted under the NHIS license. Hence, these data are not publicly available.

: Not applicable.

: Not applicable.

: Code is available if requested.

: K.H.Y. conceived the study design and conducted data analysis. K.H.Y. drafted and finalized the manuscript.