Keeping, Stuart
Deslandes, Paul N.
Haines, Kathryn E.
Routledge, Philip A.
Article History
First Online: 17 January 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This work was conducted by National Health Service (NHS)-funded staff in the All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre (AWTTC) as part of their normal duties; no external funding was received. The AWTTC undertakes medicines assessments on behalf of AWMSG in Wales, and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is represented on a number of AWMSG committees. The ABPl was not involved in the initiation, conduct or reporting of this study but was invited to comment on the manuscript prior to submission.
: SK, PND, KEH and PAR declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The estimates of expenditure used in this study were submitted by pharmaceutical companies as part of the health technology appraisal process in Wales. Some of the submitting companies consider this information to be commercially sensitive. In order to respect the commercial sensitivity of the data, the names of the medicines included in this study have been withheld, and the data used in this study will not be made publicly available.