About the Authors

Sarah Rodgers

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, PRIMIS, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Amelia C. Taylor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amelia.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Stephen A. Roberts

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biostatistics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Thomas Allen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Darren M. Ashcroft

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

James Barrett

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PRIMIS, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Matthew J. Boyd

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Rachel A. Elliott

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Kamlesh Khunti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Aziz Sheikh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Despina Laparidou

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community and Health Research Unit, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community and Health Research Unit, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Anthony J. Avery

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AJA is the National Clinical Director for Prescribing for NHS England. AJA and RAE hold a NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research: Avoiding patient harm through the application of prescribing safety indicators in English general practices (acronym: PRoTeCT): RP-PG-1214-10005.MJB is a reviewer for NIHR and Pharmacy Research UK grant awards and is an Editorial Board member for Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) and Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP). AS is on the editorial board of PLOS Medicine. ANS received funding from the National Institute for Health Research for several unrelated studies listed in publication.