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Article History

Received: 25 July 2021

Accepted: 22 February 2022

First Online: 5 March 2022

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University and Dubai Scientific Research Ethics Committee – Dubai Health Authority.Informed written consent was obtained from the adult participants and guardians of children aged < 18 years and ensuring the right to withdraw at any time during the study (see Additional file InternalRef removed). All documents and data were treated as confidential, and privacy was ensured during the data collection. Availability of patients’ clinical information for this study was granted by Dubai Thalassemia Center after receiving ethical approvals. Identifiable information associated with cost data that extracted from the system was used to identify the correct data for the sample of patients used in this study. All analyses were carried out in anonymous format.

: Not applicable.

: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.