About the Authors

Philippa Rees

Affiliations Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Adrian Edwards

Affiliation Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Colin Powell

Affiliation Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Peter Hibbert

Affiliation Australian Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Macquarie University, Macquarie, Australia

Huw Williams

Affiliation Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Meredith Makeham

Affiliation Australian Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Macquarie University, Macquarie, Australia

Ben Carter

Affiliations Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Donna Luff

Affiliations Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gareth Parry

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anthony Avery

Affiliation Division of General Practice, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Aziz Sheikh

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Liam Donaldson

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Andrew Carson-Stevens

carson-stevensap@cardiff.ac.uk

Affiliations Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Australian Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Macquarie University, Macquarie, Australia, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: ACS and AE are co-chief investigators of a National Institute for Health Services and Delivery Research Program grant to characterize patient safety incident reports in primary care. AS is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PR AE CP PH HW MM BC DL GP AA AS LD ACS. Formal analysis: PR HW BC ACS. Funding acquisition: AE ACS. Investigation: PR HW ACS. Methodology: PR AE CP PH HW MM BC DL GP AA AS LD ACS. Project administration: PR AE CP ACS. Supervision: PR AE CP ACS. Validation: PR AE CP PH HW MM BC DL GP AA AS LD ACS. Visualization: PR AE CP PH HW MM BC DL GP AA AS LD ACS. Writing – original draft: PR. Writing – review & editing: PR AE CP PH HW MM BC DL GP AA AS LD ACS.