About the Authors
- Richard D. Riley
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* E-mail: r.d.riley@bham.ac.uk
¶These authors contributed equally and are joint first authors on this work.
Affiliation School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Jill A. Hayden
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¶These authors contributed equally and are joint first authors on this work.
Affiliation Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Ewout W. Steyerberg
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Karel G. M. Moons
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Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Keith Abrams
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Affiliation Centre for Biostatistics & Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Panayiotis A. Kyzas
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Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, North Manchester General Hospital, Pennine Acute NHS Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Núria Malats
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Affiliation Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
- Andrew Briggs
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Affiliation Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment, Centre for Population & Health Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Sara Schroter
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Affiliation BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom
- Douglas G. Altman
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Harry Hemingway
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- for the PROGRESS Group
Competing Interests
SS is a full time employee of the BMJ Group but is not involved in the decision making on manuscripts. The authors declare no other competing interests.
Author Contributions
Initiated the PROGRESS Group, organised the 3 workshops, coordinated the writing groups, and were the scientific writing editors for all the papers in the PROGRESS series: HH RDR SS DGA. Guarantors for this paper: HH RDR DGA. Wrote the first version of the paper, provided examples and figures, and revised the document in light of coauthor comments: RDR JAH. Contributed through workshops and discussions to the development of the article series: PROGRESS Group. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: RDR JAH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RDR JAH KGMM EWS KA PAK NM AB SS DGA HH. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: RDR JAH KGMM EWS KA PAK NM AB SS DGA HH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: RDR JAH KGMM EWS KA PAK NM AB SS DGA HH.