Analysis of treatment cost and persistence among migraineurs: A two-year retrospective cohort study in Pakistan

Kamran Khan; Mudassar Iqbal Arain; Muhammad Arif Asghar; Ahad Abdul Rehman; Muhammad Ali Ghoto; Abdullah Dayo; Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz; Mohsin Hamied Rana; Muhammad Asif Asghar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248761

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Analysis of treatment cost and persistence among migraineurs: A two-year retrospective cohort study in Pakistan

Kamran Khan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Mudassar Iqbal Arain ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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Muhammad Arif Asghar ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

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

* E-mail: m.arifasgher@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3220-8418

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Ahad Abdul Rehman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Muhammad Ali Ghoto ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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Abdullah Dayo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Mohsin Hamied Rana ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Reckitt Benckiser, Karachi, Pakistan
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Muhammad Asif Asghar

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran Khan, Mudassar Iqbal Arain, Muhammad Arif Asghar, Ahad Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz, Mohsin Hamied Rana, Muhammad Asif Asghar

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Food and Feed Safety Laboratory, Food and Marine Resources Research Centre, PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Shahrah-e-Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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Analysis of treatment cost and persistence among migraineurs: A two-year retrospective cohort study in Pakistan

Kamran Khan,
Mudassar Iqbal Arain,
Muhammad Arif Asghar,
Ahad Abdul Rehman,
Muhammad Ali Ghoto,
Abdullah Dayo,
Muhammad Suleman Imtiaz,
Mohsin Hamied Rana,
Muhammad Asif Asghar

Published: March 26, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248761

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