Mathur, Manu Raj
Nagrath, Deepti
Mishra, Vijay Kumar
Harris, Rebecca
Saeed, Syed Saif
Selvaraj, Sakthivel
Mehta, Aashna
Farooqui, Habib Hasan
Article History
Received: 26 June 2022
Accepted: 15 March 2023
First Online: 25 March 2023
Declarations
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: The data that support the findings of this study are available from IQVIA repository, [ExternalRef removed] but restrictions apply to the availability of this data set and can be accessed upon a reasonable request to the data owner. The cleaned variables used specifically for this study are available from the authors upon reasonable request. The data used in the study is a part of a large anonymous database of information routinely collected as administrative data through surveillance activities by the source agency and at the time of collection the people concerned have been verbally asked for an informed consent and told that the data would be used for other purposes, including research, and therefore the study did not seek for an ethical approval as per National Ethical Guidelines of Government of India (National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research involving Human Participants by the Indian Council of Medical Research page 102). The data collected was in accordance of the relevant guidelines and regulations. No administrative permissions were required to access the data. The collected data was made free of identifiers thus inhibiting any linkage to an individual by the source agency. Variables that could lead to deductive disclosure of the identity of individual subjects were also de-identified.
: None.
: The authors declare no competing interests.