About the Authors

Ricardo Salinas Saldaña

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Salinas Saldaña, Harald Schrem

Affiliation Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Harald Schrem

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Salinas Saldaña, Harald Schrem

Affiliations Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Marc Barthold

Affiliation Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Alexander Kaltenborn

kaltenborn.alexander@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Core Facility Quality Management & Health Technology Assessment in Transplantation, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Federal Armed Forces Hospital Westerstede, Westerstede, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RSS HS AK. Data curation: RSS HS MB AK. Formal analysis: RSS HS MB AK. Funding acquisition: HS MB AK. Investigation: RSS HS MB AK. Methodology: RSS HS AK. Project administration: RSS HS MB AK. Resources: HS MB AK. Software: HS AK. Supervision: RSS HS MB AK. Validation: RSS HS MB AK. Visualization: RSS HS MB AK. Writing – original draft: RSS HS MB AK. Writing – review & editing: RSS HS MB AK.