Edwards, Marie Louise
Yin, Perry T.
Kuehn, Michael
Bratti, Keith
Kirson, Noam
Jena, Anupam
Howell, Scott
Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Article History
Accepted: 22 June 2022
First Online: 23 July 2022
Declarations
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: This study was funded by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
: Marie Louise Edwards, Michael Kuehn, and Noam Kirson are employees of Analysis Group, Inc., and Perry T. Yin, Keith Bratti and Scott Howell are employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporations. Anupam Jena reports receiving (in the last 36 months) consulting fees unrelated to this work from Bioverativ, Merck/Sharp/Dohme, Janssen, Edwards Life Sciences, Novartis, Amgen, Eisai, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Celgene, Sanofi Aventis, Precision Health Economics, and Analysis Group. He also reports receiving (in the last 36 months) income unrelated to this work from hosting the podcast Freakonomics, M.D., and from book rights to Doubleday Books.
: Institutional Review Board approval was not sought as the study was based on primary market research of office-based physicians and their administrative staff and did not involve any patient-level data.
: Participants were informed about the aim of the study and participant consent was required to start the survey. Study participant consent covered compliance with adverse event and product complaint reporting if applicable, processing of personal data for the purposes of the study, and obtaining applicable permissions to take part in the study, e.g. if required by an employer. It should also be noted that the study did not collect personal information and respondent information was anonymized at data collection.
: Participants were informed about the aim of this study, including the intent to publish findings, and participant consent was required to start the survey.
: The data underlying the results presented in the study are available from Analysis Group, Inc.
: Not applicable.
: All authors were involved in the conceptualization and design of the study. MLE, PY, MK, and NK contributed to the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data. MLE and MK were involved in statistical analyses. All authors were involved in drafting the manuscript and critical revisions. PY, KB, NK, and SH provided supervision.