SUPPORT
Associazione QOL-ONE, a nonprofit organization, sponsored and funded the trial described in this report, and paid for the services of professional medical writers, who provided editorial assistance in refining the draft manuscript, and a statistician, who carried out the statistical data analyses. In addition, Associazione QOL-ONE contributed to the design of the trial; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; the writing of the report; and the decision to submit the report for publication. Novartis donated eltrombopag for evaluation in the trial and provided partial and unconditional funding to Associazione QOL-ONE, but played no other role in the design or conduction of the trial, the analysis or interpretation of the data, or the development or submission of this report. The authors received no payment, from either a pharmaceutical company or any other agency, to write this report. All the authors had full access to all the trial data, and were jointly responsible for the decision to submit the report for publication.