About the Authors

Lun Li

guo19880101@163.com

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Ferrán Catalá-López

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Valencia/ INCLIVA Health Research Institute and CIBERSAM, Valencia, Spain, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo

Affiliation Department of History of Science and Documentation, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Jinhui Tian

Affiliation Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent

Affiliation Ingenio-Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and UISYS-University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Dawid Pieper

Affiliation Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, Department for Evidence-Based Health Services Research, Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany

Long Ge

Affiliation Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Liang Yao

Affiliation Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Quan Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, Four Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Kehu Yang

Affiliation Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LL FC-L AA-A JT RAB DP. Data curation: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP KY. Formal analysis: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP KY. Investigation: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP KY. Methodology: LL FC-L AA-A JT DP KY. Project administration: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP LY LG QW KY. Resources: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP KY. Software: LL FC-L AA-A JT DP KY. Supervision: KY. Validation: LL FC-L AA-A LG QW LY. Visualization: LL FC-L AA-A JT DP KY. Writing – original draft: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP LY LG QW KY. Writing – review & editing: LL FC-L AA-A JT RA-B DP LY LG QW KY.