About the Authors

Thomas Kötter

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kötter, Bruno R. da Costa

Affiliations Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Bruno R. da Costa

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kötter, Bruno R. da Costa

Affiliation Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Margrit Fässler

Affiliations Institute of General Practice, Technische Universität München, München, Germany, Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Eva Blozik

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Klaus Linde

Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

Peter Jüni

Affiliation Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Stephan Reichenbach

stephan.reichenbach@ispm.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Martin Scherer

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS TK EB KL SR. Performed the experiments: TK MF EB KL SR. Analyzed the data: BdC PJ. Wrote the paper: TK BdC SR MS.