Comment on “Development and Validation of a META-Algorithm to Identify the Indications of Use of Biological Drugs Approved for the Treatment of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases from Claims Databases: Insights from the VALORE Project”. [Response to Letter]

"Comment on “Development and Validation of a META-Algorithm to Identify the Indications of Use of Biological Drugs Approved for the Treatment of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases from Claims Databases: Insights from the VALORE Project”. [Response to Letter]." Clinical Epidemiology, , pp. 445–446

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Comments on “Development and Validation of a META-Algorithm to Identify the Indications of Use of Biological Drugs Approved for the Treatment of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases from Claims Databases: Insights from the VALORE Project” [Letter]

Disclosure

G.T. participated in advisory boards and seminars as a lecturer on topics not related to the paper and sponsored by the following pharmaceutical companies in the last two years: Eli Lilly; Sanofi; Amgen; Novo Nordisk; Sobi; Gilead; Celgene; Daiichi Sankyo, Takeda and MSD. He is also the scientific coordinator of the pharmacoepidemiology team at the University of Verona and of the academic spin-off “INSPIRE srl” that carried out in the last two years observational studies/systematic reviews on topics not related to the content of this article and which were funded by PTC Pharmaceutics, Kyowa Kirin, Shionogi, Shire, Chiesi and Daiichi Sankyo. Y.I. is the CEO of the academic spin-off “INSPIRE srl”, which has received funding for conducting observational studies from contract research organizations (RTI Health Solutions, Pharmo Institute N.V.) and from pharmaceutical Companies (Chiesi Italia, Kyowa Kirin s.r.l., Daiichi Sankyo Italia S.p.A.). The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this communication.

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Funding

This study was funded by the Italian Medicines Agency in the context of the multiregional pharmacovigilance project (AIFA 2012–2014: Post-marketing evaluation of the benefit–risk profile of originator biologics and biosimilars in the dermatological, rheumatological, gastroenterological and onco-hematological areas through the establishment of a single multiregional network for the integrated analysis of data from health databases, active surveillance and clinical registers – VALORE project). The funding sources had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.