About the Authors

Gregor John

gregor.john@h-ne.ch

Affiliation Department of Internal medicine, Hôpital neuchâtelois, Chasseral 20, 2300, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland

Claire Bardini

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland

Christophe Combescure

Affiliation CRC & Division of clinical-epidemiology, Department of health and community medicine, University of Geneva & Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Dällenbach

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Perineology Unit, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

All authors declare no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GJ PD. Performed the experiments: CB GJ. Analyzed the data: GJ CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJ CC. Wrote the paper: GJ. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: PD CB CC. Statistical analysis: GJ CC. Study supervision: GJ.