Prabhu, Vimalanand S. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1358-8846
Bansal, Neha
Liu, Zhiwen
Finalle, Rodney
Sénécal, Martin
Kothari, Smita
Trowers, Kemar
Myers, Evan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck
Article History
Received: 4 September 2020
Accepted: 25 August 2021
First Online: 6 September 2021
Declarations
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: IBM provided de-identified individual-level data from the IBM MarketScan® Research Database which are fully compliant with U.S. privacy laws and regulations, i.e., the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and no IRB clearance was necessary.
: Not Applicable
: VSP, ZL, RF, SK and KT are employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA and potentially own stock and/or hold stock options in Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. NB and MS are employees of CHEORS, which has done contract work from Merck & Co., Inc. EM reports personal fees from Merck & Co., Inc. during the conduct of the study and outside the submitted work, personal fees from Hologic, Inc., AbbVie, Inc., and Bayer, Inc. VSP, ZL, and SK, who are employees of Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA also participated in the study design, the analysis of the data, the interpretation of findings and the development of the manuscript. RF and KT who are employees of Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, participated in the analysis of the data and the interpretation of the findings.