Article History
Received: 9 May 2017
Accepted: 9 April 2018
First Online: 17 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The 2014 Japan NHWS was reviewed for exemption determination by Pearl IRB (Indianapolis, IN, USA; study number 14-KAN-106) prior to participant recruitment and found to meet the exemption requirements under DHHS 45CFR46.101 regulations. All respondents viewed an on-line informed consent form and indicated their consent to participate prior to responding to the survey.
: KN is no conflict of interest about this study. TT is full-time employees and stockholders of Shionogi & Co., Ltd.. JV was and DJ is employed by Kantar Health, which received fees from Shionogi & Co. Ltd., for access to Kantar Health’s NHWS data, analysis, and reporting for this study.
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