Initiation of Triple Therapy with Multiple Inhalers in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Analysis of Treatment Patterns from a U.S. Retrospective Database Study

Abstract

This study was a GlaxoSmithKline-sponsored collaborative research study (HO-14-16145). GlaxoSmithKline funded this study and had a role in study design, data analysis, data interpretation, and writing of this report. Stemkowski is a paid employee of Comprehensive Health Insights, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Humana and was contracted to conduct the study. No funding was provided to Comprehensive Health Insights for manuscript development. At the time of the study, Lane and Tao were paid employees of Comprehensive Health Insights. Stanford is an employee of and stockholder in GlaxoSmithKline.