About the Authors

Massimiliano Orso

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

massi.orso@hotmail.it

Affiliation C.R.E.A. Sanità (Centre for Applied Economic Research in Healthcare), Rome, Italy

Barbara Polistena

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.R.E.A. Sanità (Centre for Applied Economic Research in Healthcare), Rome, Italy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Simona Granato

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Department, Pfizer Italia, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Novelli

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Pfizer Italia, Rome, Italy

Roberto Di Virgilio

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Pfizer Italia, Rome, Italy

Daria La Torre

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Medical Affairs, Pfizer Rare Disease, Rome, Italy

Daniela d’Angela

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.R.E.A. Sanità (Centre for Applied Economic Research in Healthcare), Rome, Italy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Federico Spandonaro

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.R.E.A. Sanità (Centre for Applied Economic Research in Healthcare), Rome, Italy, San Raffaele University, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

Simona Granato, Giuseppe Novelli, Roberto Di Virgilio and Daria La Torre are employees of Pfizer. Barbara Polistena declares to have received in the last 5 years payments or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events from the following commercial sources: Allergan, Amgen, Astellas, Baxter, BMS, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen Cilag, Jazzpharma, Mylan, Nestlé HS, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Servier, Shire, Takeda, Teva; in addition, she received consulting fees from UCB. Federico Spandonaro declares to have received in the last 5 years payments or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events from the following commercial sources: Allergan, Amgen, Astellas, Baxter, BMS, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen Cilag, Jazzpharma, Mylan, Nestlé HS, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Servier, Shire, Takeda, Teva; in addition, he received consulting fees from Amgen. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.