About the Authors

Cheryl L. L. Carling

cheryl.carling@kunnskapssenteret.no

Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Doris Tove Kristoffersen

Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Victor M. Montori

Affiliation Knowledge and Encounter Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jeph Herrin

Affiliation Flying Buttress Associates, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Holger J. Schünemann

Affiliation Clinical Research and INFORMAtion Translation Unit and Department of Epidemiology, Italian National Cancer Institute Regina Elena, Rome, Italy

Shaun Treweek

Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Elie A. Akl

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Andrew D. Oxman

Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: CLC DTK VMM JH HJS ST EAA ADO. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: CLC DTK VMM JH HJS ST EAA ADO. Designed the experiments/the study: CLC DTK VMM JH ST EAA ADO. Contributed to the design of the study: HJS. Analyzed the data: CLC DTK. Collected data/did experiments for the study: CLC HJS. Wrote the first draft of the paper: CLC DTK. Contributed to the writing of the paper: CLC DTK VMM JH HJS ST EAA ADO.