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Funding: The PROTECT project is supported by Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Undertaking (www.imi.europa.eu) under Grant Agreement no. 115004, resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies in kind contribution. In the context of the IMI Joint Undertaking, the Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Utrecht University, also received a direct financial contribution from Pfizer. The views expressed are those of the authors only and not of their respective institution or company.
Conflict of interest: O.H.K. received unrestricted funding for pharmacoepidemiological research from the Dutch private-public funded top institute Pharma.