Fujiwara, Saeko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0114-5266
Buchanan-Hughes, Amy
Ng, Alvin
Page, Jennifer
Adachi, Kenji
Li, Hong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Amgen K.K
Astellas Pharma Inc
Article History
Received: 9 November 2021
Accepted: 13 June 2022
First Online: 2 July 2022
Declarations
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: Patient data are de-identified at the hospital level before being incorporated into the MDV database, and the medical claims data retrieved from the database for this study were unlinkable to individual patients. Furthermore, as there was no active enrolment, follow-up, or direct data collection from individuals, ethics committee approval for this study was not necessary. Formal consent from patients for participation and publication was not required for this study.
: Saeko Fujiwara received consultation fees from Teijin Pharma Co. Amy Buchanan-Hughes, Alvin Ng and Jennifer Page are employees of Costello Medical, which was funded by Amgen to provide data analysis, research, writing and editorial services for this manuscript. Kenji Adachi is an employee of Amgen, and Hong Li was an employee of Amgen at the time of study conduct and manuscript development.