Ghijben, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7532-7847
Petrie, Dennis http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3882-2531
Zavarsek, Silva
Chen, Gang
Lancsar, Emily
Article History
Accepted: 16 March 2021
First Online: 9 April 2021
Declarations
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: The Centre for Health Economics, Monash University funded this paper.
: Peter Ghijben, Dennis Petrie, Silva Zavarsek, Gang Chen, and Emily Lancsar have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee granted ethics approval for this study (CF15/4240-2015001816).
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: This paper uses administrative patient-level data owned by the Australian Government. The data are not publicly available because they contain confidential health records on Australian patients. Access to the data requires a formal application to ‘Services Australia’.
: The Stata code for the Monte Carlo simulations is provided in the ESM.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and data collection were performed by PG and SZ. The methodology was developed by PG and DP, and analysis was performed by PG. The first draft of the manuscript was written by PG and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.