Hamza, DMM
Zayed, MWA
Tahoun, N
Farghaly, M
Kumaresan, S
Ramachandrachar, BC
Ali, A
Article History
Received: 25 January 2024
Accepted: 11 June 2024
First Online: 12 July 2024
Declarations
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: This study was based on secondary, de-identified data that comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Ethics committee approval was not required for this study, as it did not involve the collection, use, or transmission of individual identifiable data. The database contains anonymized structured insurance e-claims data of the patients. Patients’ identities or medical records were not disclosed for the purposes of this study, except where disclosure was allowed as per applicable law. The study conformed with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its later amendments.The data used for the current study were not publicly available. These data were obtained from Nationwide Medical Insurance following all necessary legal procedures to acquire and use these anonymized patient claims data. According to a data-sharing agreement between Nationwide Medical Insurance and IQVIA, IQVIA was granted a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use only the elements of the data described in the agreement. IQVIA was permitted to use the data after anonymizing and standardizing for health insurance claims data-based analysis and research studies and was allowed to share the anonymized and standardized data with its clients for health insurance claims data-based analysis and research studies. IQVIA agreed to comply with applicable laws, including those related to data protection.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests. Pfizer has no conflict of interest to declare related to patents, products in development, and marketed products. The authors have no conflict of interest to declare. All Pfizer Employees were full-time employee of Pfizer during the conduct of the study. All IQVIA employees were paid consultants to Pfizer in connection with the development of this manuscript. These competing interests of the authors does not alter their adherence to (BMC Health Services Research) policies on sharing data and materials.