Axson, Eleanor L. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-2389
Bual, Navdeep
Bloom, Chloe I.
Quint, Jennifer K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Imperial College London
Article History
Received: 13 August 2018
Accepted: 8 October 2018
First Online: 27 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Miss Axson, Miss Bual, and Dr. Bloom have nothing to declare. Dr. Quint’s research group reports grants and personal fees from Insmed, during the conduct of the study; grants from MRC, grants from Wellcome Trust, grants from British Lung Foundation, grants and personal fees from GSK, grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, grants from Royal College of Physicians, personal fees from Chiesi, and personal fees from Teva, outside the submitted work.
: The protocol for this research was approved by the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) for MHRA Database Research (protocol number 18_025) and the approved protocol was made available to the journal and reviewers during peer review. Generic ethical approval for observational research using the CPRD with approval from ISAC has been granted by a Health Research Authority (HRA) Research Ethics Committee (East Midlands—Derby, REC reference number 05/MRE04/87). Linked pseudonymised data was provided for this studies by CPRD. Data is linked by NHS Digital, the statutory trusted third party for linking data, using identifiable data held only by NHS Digital. Select general practices consent to this process at a practice level with individual patients having the right to opt out.
: No patients were involved in the design or analyses for this study.