Persistence of newly prescribed 5-aminosalicylic acid in patients with ulcerative colitis: A nationwide comprehensive database study

• Tatsuya Noda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tatsuya Noda, Kotaro Kuwaki, Munehito Machida

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

  * E-mail: noda@naramed-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Management and Policy, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3652-7547

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• Kotaro Kuwaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tatsuya Noda, Kotaro Kuwaki, Munehito Machida

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

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6124-3856

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• Munehito Machida ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tatsuya Noda, Kotaro Kuwaki, Munehito Machida

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Policy, National Institute of Public Health, Saitama, Japan

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• Yasuyuki Okumura,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Initiative for Clinical Epidemiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuichi Nishioka,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Management and Policy, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan

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• Tomoya Myojin,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Management and Policy, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3820-6157

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• Tomoaki Imamura

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Management and Policy, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan

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