About the Authors

Christian D. Mallen

c.d.mallen@keele.ac.uk

Affiliations Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands, Keele, United Kingdom

Barbara I. Nicholl

Affiliation General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Martyn Lewis

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Bernadette Bartlam

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Daniel Green

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Sue Jowett

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Jesse Kigozi

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

John Belcher

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Kris Clarkson

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Zoe Lingard

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Christopher Pope

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Carolyn A. Chew-Graham

Affiliations Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands, Keele, United Kingdom

Peter Croft

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Elaine M. Hay

Affiliations Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands, Keele, United Kingdom

George Peat

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

CCG and CDM are supported by the NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands. CDM is also funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research and an NIHR Research Professorship in General Practice (NIHR-RP-2014-04-026). EMH is a NIHR Senior Investigator. DG was a NIHR School for Primary Care Research Doctoral Training Fellow.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CDM EMH GP ML PC. Data curation: BB BN ZL. Formal analysis: BB CCG DG JK ML SJ. Funding acquisition: CDM GP PC EMH ML. Investigation: BB BN ZL. Methodology: CDM BN ML BB DG SJ JK JB KC ZL CP CCG PC EMH GP. Project administration: BN ZL KC CDM. Supervision: CDM EMH GP KC PC. Validation: JB. Visualization: ML. Writing – original draft: CDM GP BB. Writing – review & editing: CDM BN ML BB DG SJ JK JB KC ZL CP CCG PC EMH GP.