About the Authors

Thabata Martins Ferreira Campuzano

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

thabata.martins@merck.com

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Michelle Nadalin, Cicera Pimenta Marcelino, Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter, Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Paula de Mendonça Batista

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Michelle Nadalin, Cicera Pimenta Marcelino, Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter, Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Michelle Nadalin

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Michelle Nadalin, Cicera Pimenta Marcelino, Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter, Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Cicera Pimenta Marcelino

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Michelle Nadalin, Cicera Pimenta Marcelino, Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter, Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Paula Cristina Pungartnik

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ PCP and ACS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation IQVIA Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Angélica Carreira dos Santos

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

‡ PCP and ACS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation IQVIA Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Michelle Nadalin, Cicera Pimenta Marcelino, Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter, Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Amelia Carlos Souto Maior Borba, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Michelle Nadalin, Cicera Pimenta Marcelino, Letícia Paula Leonart Garmatter, Maria Aparecida do Carmo Rego

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Angélica Nogueira-Rodrigues

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: TMFC, MACSM, PMB, MACR, MN, LPLG and CPM are employees of Merck Sharp Dohme Farmacêutica Ltda, Sao Paulo, Brazil, who may own stock and/or hold stock options in Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. ANR is a scientific medical consultant who was paid by MSD Brazil. PCP and ACS were employees of IQVIA Brazil, which was contracted by MSD Brazil to conduct the study.