About the Authors

Jean Yves Le Reste

lereste@univ-brest.fr (JYLR); nabbep@univ-brest.fr (PN)

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France

Patrice Nabbe

lereste@univ-brest.fr (JYLR); nabbep@univ-brest.fr (PN)

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France

Charles Rivet

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France

Charilaos Lygidakis

Affiliation Associazione Italiana Medici di Famiglia (AIMEF), Bologna, Italy

Christa Doerr

Affiliation Allgemein Medizin Hochschule Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Slawomir Czachowski

Affiliation Department of Family Doctor, University Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Poland

Heidrun Lingner

Affiliation Allgemein Medizin Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Stella Argyriadou

Affiliation The Greek Association of General Practitioners (ELEGEIA), Thessaloniki, Greece

Djurdjica Lazic

Affiliation University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Radost Assenova

Affiliation Department of General Practice, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Melida Hasaganic

Affiliation Department of General Practice, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Miquel Angel Munoz

Affiliation IDIAP Jordi Gol, Unitat de Support a La Recerca, Barcelona, Spain

Hans Thulesius

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden

Bernard Le Floch

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France

Jeremy Derriennic

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France

Agnieska Sowinska

Affiliation Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Harm Van Marwijk

Affiliation Department of General Practice, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Nederland

Claire Lietard

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France

Paul Van Royen

Affiliation Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYLR PN BLF HVM C. Lietard PVR. Performed the experiments: JYLR PN CR C. Lygidakis CD SC HL SA DL RA MH MAM BLF JD AS. Analyzed the data: JYLR PN CR C. Lygidakis CD SC HL SA DL RA MH MAM BLF JD AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYLR. Wrote the paper: JYLR PN HT BLF JD HVM C. Lietard PVR.