About the Authors

Peter Makai

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Makai, Franziska Beckebans

Peter.Makai@radboudumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Franziska Beckebans

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Makai, Franziska Beckebans

Affiliation Siemens Health Insurance Fund, Munchen, Germany

Job van Exel

Affiliation Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Werner B. F. Brouwer

Affiliation Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM FB. Performed the experiments: FB. Analyzed the data: PM FB JvE. Wrote the paper: FB PM WB JvE.