About the Authors

Jennifer McIntosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer McIntosh, Albert Alonso

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mcintosh@clinic.cat

Affiliation Departament de Recerca i Innovació, Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain

Albert Alonso

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer McIntosh, Albert Alonso

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Recerca i Innovació, Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain

Katie MacLure

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

Derek Stewart

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

Thomas Kempen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pharmacy Department, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Alpana Mair

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Effective prescribing and therapeutics, Health and social care directorate, Scottish Government, Edinburgh, Scotland

Margarida Castel-Branco

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Care, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Carles Codina

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Servei de Farmàcia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Fernando Fernandez-Llimos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Institute for Medicines Research, Department of Social Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

Glenda Fleming

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Pharmacy Department and Regional Medicines Optimisation Innovation Centre(MOIC) Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Antrim, Northern Ireland

Dimitra Gennimata

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Department of Social and Education Policy, University of Peloponnese, Korinthos, Greece, eHealth Innovation Unit, 1st Regional Health Authority of Attica, Athens, Greece

Ulrika Gillespie

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Pharmacy Department, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Cathy Harrison

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

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Affiliation Department of Health, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Maddalena Illario

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy

Ulrike Junius-Walker

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christos F. Kampolis

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Department of Social and Education Policy, University of Peloponnese, Korinthos, Greece, eHealth Innovation Unit, 1st Regional Health Authority of Attica, Athens, Greece

Przemyslaw Kardas

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Pawel Lewek

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

João Malva

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI) and Institute of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Enrica Menditto

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation CIRFF, Center of Pharmacoeconomics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Claire Scullin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Clinical & Practice Research Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Birgitt Wiese

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

on behalf of the SIMPATHY Consortium

Membership of the SIMPATHY Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.