Pavord, Ian D.
Mathieson, Nicola
Scowcroft, Anna
Pedersini, Riccardo
Isherwood, Gina
Price, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-9992
Article History
Received: 29 April 2016
Revised: 12 December 2016
Accepted: 28 December 2016
First Online: 9 March 2017
Change Date: 5 December 2017
Change Type: Correction
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Competing interests
: Gina Isherwood is an employee of Kantar Health. At the time of the study, Riccardo Pedersini was an employee of Kantar Health. Kantar Health received payment from Boehringer Ingelheim for conducting the study and towards statistical analyses, in connection with the development of this manuscript. Professor Price has Board Membership with Aerocrine, Almirall, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Meda, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis and Teva. Consultancy: A Almirall, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, Meda, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis, Pfizer and Teva; Grants and unrestricted funding for investigator-initiated studies from UK National Health Service, British Lung Foundation, Aerocrine, AKL Ltd., Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Meda, Merck, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis, Orion, Pfizer, Respiratory Effectiveness Group, Takeda, Teva and Zentiva; Payments for lectures/speaking: Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Cipla, GlaxoSmithKline, Kyorin, Meda, Merck, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, SkyePharma, Takeda and Teva; Payment for manuscript preparation: Mundipharma and Teva; Patents (planned, pending, or issued): AKL Ltd.; Payment for the development of educational materials: GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis; Stock/Stock options: Shares in AKL Ltd., which produces phytopharmaceuticals and owns 80% of Research in Real Life Ltd., and its subsidiary social enterprise Optimum Patient Care; received payment for travel/accommodations/meeting expenses from Aerocrine, Boehringer Ingelheim, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis and Teva; Funding for patient enrolment or completion of research: Almirral, Chiesi, Teva and Zentiva and Peer reviewer for grant committees: Medical Research Council (2014), Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme (2012) and HTA (2014). In the last 5 years Professor Pavord has received speaker’s honoraria for speaking at sponsored meetings from Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Inglehiem, Aerocrine, Almirall, Novartis and GSK. He has received honoraria for attending advisory panels with Almirall, Genentech, Regeneron, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GSK, MSD, Schering-Plough, Novartis, Dey, Napp and Respivert. He has received sponsorship to attend international scientific meetings from Boehringer Ingelheim, GSK, Astra Zeneca and Napp. Anna Scowcroft is an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim UK Ltd. and Nicola Mathieson was an employee at the time of the study.