Wang, Shirley V. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7761-7090
Patterson, Olga V.
Gagne, Joshua J.
Brown, Jeffrey S.
Ball, Robert
Jonsson, Pall
Wright, Adam
Zhou, Li
Goettsch, Wim
Bate, Andrew
Article History
First Online: 26 August 2019
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: Dr Shirley V Wang has received salary support on investigator-initiated grants from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Boehringer Ingelheim, and J&J to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and was a consultant to Aetion, Inc., all for unrelated work. Dr Olga V. Patterson receives research grants from the following for-profit organizations: Amgen Inc., Anolinx LLC, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Genentech Inc., Genomic Health, Inc., Gilead Sciences Inc., HITEKS Solutions Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Northrop Grumman Information Systems, Novartis International AG, PAREXEL International Corporation, and Shire PLC through the University of Utah or Western Institute for Biomedical Research. Dr Patterson also receives research funding from the following federal and non-profit organizations: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Intermountain Healthcare, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Library of Medicine, National Science Foundation, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and RAND Corporation. Dr Joshua J. Gagne has received salary support from grants from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Eli Lilly and company to Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a consultant to Aetion, Inc. and to Optum, Inc., all for unrelated work. Dr Andrew Bate is an employee and shareholder of Pfizer. The views expressed in this paper are those of Dr Bate and may not necessarily reflect those of Pfizer. Dr Robert Ball is an author of US Patent 9,075,796, “Text mining for large medical text datasets and corresponding medical text classification using informative feature selection”. Dr Li Zhou has received research funding from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): R01HS022728 and CRICO/RMF. Dr Jeffrey S Brown, Dr Pall Jonsson, Dr Adam Wright, and Dr Wim Goettsch have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article. The views expressed in this article are the personal views of the authors and may not be understood or quoted as being made on behalf of or reflecting the position of the US Food and Drug Administration or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
: This study was supported by funds from the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
: Not applicable; no data were analyzed.
: No patient contact or data were involved.