Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovative Medicines Canada
Article History
First Online: 10 July 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Innovative Medicines Canada funded the research for this study with an unrestricted grant to the Institute of Health Economics.
: Dat T. Tran, Ilke Akpinar and Philip Jacobs have no conflict of interest to declare.
: The datasets analysed during the current study are available in the public domain: (1) the Access to Aggregate Content of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT) dataset was downloaded on 15 July 2018 and is available at ExternalRef removed; (2) the Alberta Interactive Drug Benefit List was downloaded on 7 August 2018 and is available at ExternalRef removed; and (3) the US Department of Veterans Affairs Pharmaceutical Prices file was downloaded on 7 August 2018 and is available at ExternalRef removed.