Rouette, Julie
Yin, Hui
McDonald, Emily G.
Barkun, Alan
Azoulay, Laurent http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5162-3556
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-143328)
Article History
Accepted: 14 October 2021
First Online: 29 October 2021
Declarations
:
: This work was supported by a Foundation Scheme grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-143328). JR is the recipient of a Doctoral Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FRN-152254) and a Doctoral Award from the <i>Fonds de Recherche du Québec- Santé</i>. EGM holds a Chercheur-Clinicien Junior 1 award from the <i>Fonds de Recherche du Québec- Santé</i>. LA holds a Chercheur-Boursier Senior Award from the <i>Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé</i> and is the recipient of a William Dawson Scholar award from McGill University. The funding sources had no influence on the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
: JR received consulting fees for work unrelated to this study from Biogen. LA received consulting fees from Janssen and Pfizer for work unrelated to this study. HY, EGM, and AB have no conflicts to disclose.
: The study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved by the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee of the CPRD (protocol number 20_000225R) and the Research Ethics Board of the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada (number 2021-2748).
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: All authors conceived and designed the study, interpreted the data, critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content, and approved the final version of the manuscript. LA acquired the data. JR, HY, and LA conducted the analyses. JR drafted the manuscript. LA attests that all listed authors meet authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted. LA is accountable for all aspects of the work.
: The data cannot be shared publicly due to the privacy policy of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.