About the Authors

Janet Bouttell

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

James Lewsey

jim.lewsey@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Claudia Geue

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Grace Antony

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Andrew Briggs

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Gerry McCartney

Affiliation NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Sharon Hutchinson

Affiliation School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Lesley Graham

Affiliation Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mathis Heydtmann

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JL MH. Data curation: JL JB GA CG. Formal analysis: JL MH CG GA JB. Funding acquisition: JL. Investigation: JL MH. Methodology: JL JB CG GA LG. Project administration: JL. Supervision: AB GM LG SH. Visualization: JL JB. Writing – original draft: JB. Writing – review & editing: JL MH GA CG SH LG AB GM.