St. Peter, Wendy L.
Guo, Haifeng
Kabadi, Shaum
Gilbertson, David T.
Peng, Yi
Pendergraft, Trudy
Li, Suying
Funding for this research was provided by:
AstraZeneca, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware
Article History
Received: 19 September 2017
Accepted: 1 March 2018
First Online: 15 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We applied to and received approval from the Human Subjects Research Committee of the Hennepin County Medical Center/Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. We used retrospective data from the Truven Health MarketScan database and CMS Medicare data under data use agreements and obtained a waiver of consent as obtaining consent would have been an unreasonable burden.
: Not applicable.
: Drs. St. Peter, Gilbertson, and Li, Ms. Guo, and Mr. Peng report no competing financial interests. Dr. Kabadi and Ms. Pendergraft are employed by AstraZeneca. The results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part, except in abstract format.
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