Funding for this research was provided by:
National Medical Research Council, Singapore (NMRC/HSRNIG/0008/2015)
Article History
Received: 19 November 2019
Accepted: 28 January 2020
First Online: 21 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All the authors have approved the final manuscript and consented for publication.
: The data of this study were acquired in a retrospective study entitled “Evaluation of treatment strategies in prevention of stroke and coronary heart disease among type 2 diabetic patients using Markov decision process” and ethically approved by the Domain Specific Review Board (DSRB reference number—2015/00698) of National Healthcare Group, Singapore, which was determined by the DSRB to be an exempt category.
: Informed consent from patients was not taken because this is a retrospective study and the data were de-identified.