About the Authors
- Beate Wieseler
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* E-mail: beate.wieseler@iqwig.de
Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Natalia Wolfram
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Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Natalie McGauran
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Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Michaela F. Kerekes
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Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Volker Vervölgyi
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Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Petra Kohlepp
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Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Marloes Kamphuis
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Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
- Ulrich Grouven
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Affiliations Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
Competing Interests
All authors are employees of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). To produce unbiased HTA reports, the Institute depends on access to all of the relevant data on the topic under investigation. The authors therefore support public access to clinical study reports.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BW . Analyzed the data: VV UG . Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: NM BW NW . Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BW NW NM MFK VV PK MK UG. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: BW NW NM MFK VV PK MK UG. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: BW NW NM MFK VV PK MK UG. Extracted and coded the data: MFK NW PK. Checked the data and codings: MFK NW VV PK MK.