About the Authors

Karin Vitzthum

karin.vitzthum@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Information Science, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Cristian Scutaru

Affiliations Department of Information Science, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Lindy Musial-Bright

Affiliation Department of Information Science, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

David Quarcoo

Affiliation Department of Information Science, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tobias Welte

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Michael Spallek

Affiliation Department of Information Science, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Beatrix Groneberg-Kloft

Affiliation Otto-Heubner-Centre, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KV CS BGK. Performed the experiments: LMB MS. Analyzed the data: KV DQ TW BGK. Wrote the paper: KV BGK.