About the Authors

Clemens Honeder

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rudolfs Liepins

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Christoph Arnoldner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Hana Šinkovec

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Section for Clinical Biometrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alexandra Kaider

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Section for Clinical Biometrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Erich Vyskocil

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dominik Riss

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dominik.riss@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DR and CA currently receive funding from MED-EL Corporation, Innsbruck, Austria. RL was financed by one of these research grants while performing this study. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.