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Lexchin J. Health Canada's use of its priority review process for new drugs: a cohort study. BMJ Open 2015;5:e006816.

The WHO ATC database was used to determine first-in-class status on the mistaken information that a first in class drug ended in a 01 number. After the paper was published the author was informed that this assumption was incorrect. Therefore, information from the United States Food and Drug Administration (contained in the new reference 10) was used instead to determine which drugs were first-in-class. The results from this reanalysis are quite similar and do not change the conclusions in the article.

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