About the Authors
- Kunling Shen
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Care, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Beijing, China
- Tengbin Xiong
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* E-mail: tbxiong@cn.imshealth.com
Affiliation Health Economics & Outcomes Research, IMS Health China, Shanghai, China
- Seng Chuen Tan
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Affiliation Health Economics & Outcomes Research, IMS Health Asia Pacific, Singapore, Singapore
- Jiuhong Wu
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, The 306th Hospital of PLA, Beijing, China
Competing Interests
Tengbin Xiong and Seng Chuen Tan are current employees of IMS Health, which received funds from HEC Pharm for this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No patents have been applied for relating to the content of the manuscript. None of the authors has any other financial or nonfinancial competing interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KS TX SCT JW. Performed the experiments: TX SCT. Analyzed the data: TX SCT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TX SCT. Wrote the paper: TX SCT. Study supervision: KS JW.