Chen, Jing http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7611-4173
Shin, Ju-Young http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1010-7525
Shantakumar, Sumitra http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5814-6465
Bea, Sungho http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2622-6553
Ye, Byong Duk http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6647-6325
Lee, Dong-Gun http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4655-0641
Kim, Hyungwoo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8675-0192
Choi, Won Suk http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5874-4764
Kaan, Iain http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8069-1264
Funding for this research was provided by:
GlaxoSmithKline foundation (VEO-000415)
Article History
Received: 20 September 2023
Accepted: 9 November 2023
First Online: 12 December 2023
Declarations
:
: Jing Chen and Sumitra Shantakumar: Employees of and hold shares in GSK group of companies; Ju-Young Shin, Sungho Bea, and Dong-Gun Lee: Report nothing to disclose; Byong Duk Ye: Received grants/contracts from Celltrion and Pfizer; received consulting fees from BMS, Chong Kun Dang Pharm, CJ Bioscience, Curacle, Daewoong Pharm, Dong-A ST, IQVIA, Korea Otsuka Pharm, Korea United Pharm, Medtronic, NanoEntek, ORGANOIDSCIENCES, and Samsung Bioepis; received payment/honoraria from AbbVie, Celltrion, Cornerstone Health, Curacle, Daewoong Pharm, Eisai, Ferring, IQVIA, Janssen, Pfizer, and Takeda; participated on Data Safety Monitoring Boards or Advisory Boards by AbbVie, Celltrion, Ferring, Janssen, Pfizer, Takeda, and Yuhan; Hyungwoo Kim: Employee of GSK group of companies; Won Suk Choi: Received payment/honoraria for lectures on the zoster vaccine to physicians. Iain Kaan: Previously an employee and shareholder of GSK group of companies and currently an independent researcher. The authors declare that the conflicts of interest reported are outside this submitted work, and that there are no conflicts of interest that could have influenced the design, conduct, or reporting of this research.
: This study was performed in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, its later amendments, and all applicable laws and regulations governing research involving human participants. Approval for this study was obtained from the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) Ethics Committee (Protocol number SKKU 2021-03-008) and followed the guidelines and recommendations provided by the aforementioned ethics committee. As the databases used for this retrospective claims analysis study consisted of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) compliant de-identified data, informed consent for publication was not required. Confidentiality and anonymity are implied owing to the nature of this database analysis.