About the Authors

Marjolein Lugtenberg

m.lugtenberg@iq.umcn.nl

Affiliations Scientific Centre for Care and Welfare (Tranzo), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ Healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jako S. Burgers

Affiliations Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ Healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG), Utrecht, The Netherlands

Carolyn Clancy

Affiliation Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Gert P. Westert

Affiliations Scientific Centre for Care and Welfare (Tranzo), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ Healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Eric C. Schneider

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, RAND Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML JB CC GW ES. Analyzed the data: ML JB. Wrote the paper: ML JB CC GW ES.