Epidemiology, characteristics and treatment of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and incidence of high disease activity: Real world evidence based on German claims data

• Christoph Ohlmeier ,

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

  * E-mail: christoph.ohlmeier@iges.com

  Affiliation Department Health Services Research, IGES Institut GmbH, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2868-5211

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• Holger Gothe,

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

  Affiliations Department Health Services Research, IGES Institut GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Chair for Health Sciences / Public Health, Medical Faculty “Carl Gustav Carus”, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall i.T., Austria

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• Judith Haas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Jewish Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Ulrike Osowski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck Serono GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Carina Weinhold,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck Serono GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Sarah Blauwitz,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Health Services Research, IGES Institut GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Niklas Schmedt,

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

  Affiliation InGef - Institute for Applied Health Research Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Wolfgang Galetzka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation InGef - Institute for Applied Health Research Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Fabian Berkemeier,

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

  Affiliation Department Health Services Research, IGES Institut GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Björn Tackenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland

  Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany

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• Martin Stangel

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neurochemistry, Dept. of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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