About the Authors

Ella Willenbacher

Affiliations Medical University of Innsbruck, Internal Medicine V—Hematology and Oncology, Innsbruck, Austria, Area 4 Health Technology Assessment and Bioinformatics, ONCOTYROL–Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria

Roman Weger

Affiliation Area 4 Health Technology Assessment and Bioinformatics, ONCOTYROL–Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria

Ursula Rochau

Affiliations Area 4 Health Technology Assessment and Bioinformatics, ONCOTYROL–Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria, Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT—University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria

Uwe Siebert

Affiliations Area 4 Health Technology Assessment and Bioinformatics, ONCOTYROL–Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria, Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT—University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria, Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wolfgang Willenbacher

Wolfgang.Willenbacher@tirol-kliniken.at

Affiliations Medical University of Innsbruck, Internal Medicine V—Hematology and Oncology, Innsbruck, Austria, Area 4 Health Technology Assessment and Bioinformatics, ONCOTYROL–Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria

Austrian Myeloma Registry (AMR)

The complete list of AMR participants & coordinating physicians can be found in S1 File.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EW RW UR US WW. Performed the experiments: EW RW UR US WW. Analyzed the data: EW RW UR WW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EW RW UR US WW. Wrote the paper: EW RW UR US WW.