About the Authors

Amanda Wilson

Affiliation The School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Waratah, Australia

Jane Robertson

Affiliation The School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Waratah, Australia

Patrick McElduff

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

Alison Jones

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia

David Henry

david.henry@ices.on.ca

Affiliations The School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Waratah, Australia, The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors of this paper have acted as reviewers for Media Doctor, rating news articles featured on the Media Doctor Web site (http://www.mediadoctor.org.au/).

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: AW JR PM AJ DH. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: AW JR PM AJ DH. Designed the experiments/the study: AW AJ DH. Analyzed the data: AW PM DH. Collected data/did experiments for the study: AW. Wrote the first draft of the paper: AW. Contributed to the writing of the paper: AW JR AJ DH. Supervisor for PhD thesis of Amanda Wilson: AJ DH.