About the Authors
- Ewout W. Steyerberg
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¶These authors contributed equally and are joint first authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Karel G. M. Moons
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¶These authors contributed equally and are joint first authors on this work.
Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Danielle A. van der Windt
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Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom
- Jill A. Hayden
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Affiliation Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Pablo Perel
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Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Sara Schroter
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Affiliation BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom
- Richard D. Riley
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Affiliation School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Harry Hemingway
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Douglas G. Altman
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* E-mail: doug.altman@csm.ox.ac.uk
Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- for the PROGRESS Group
Competing Interests
SS is a full time employee of the BMJ Group but is not involved in the decision making on manuscripts. The authors declare no other competing interests.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: EWS KGMM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: EWS KGMM DAvdW JAH PP SS RDR HH DGA. Initiated the PROGRESS Group, organised the three workshops, coordinated the writing groups, and were the scientific writing editors for all the papers in the PROGRESS series: HH RDR SS DGA. Guarantors for this paper: HH RDR DGA. Contributed through workshops and discussions to the development of the article series: PROGRESS Group.ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: EWS KGMM DAvdW JAH PP SS RDR HH DGA. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: EWS KGMM DAvdW JAH PP SS RDR HH DGA.