About the Authors

Jorge Arias-de la Torre

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jariasdelatorre@gencat.cat

Affiliations Agency for Heath Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain

Elisa Puigdomenech

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Agency for Heath Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS), Barcelona, Spain, eHealth Lab Research Group, School of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain

Jose M. Valderas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Health Services and Policy Research Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

Jonathan P. Evans

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Health Services and Policy Research Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, United Kingdom

Vicente Martín

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain

Antonio J. Molina

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain

Nuria Rodríguez

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Agency for Heath Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS), Barcelona, Spain

Mireia Espallargues

Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Arias-de la Torre, Elisa Puigdomenech, Jose M. Valderas, Jonathan P. Evans, Vicente Martín, Antonio J. Molina, Nuria Rodríguez, Mireia Espallargues

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Agency for Heath Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS), Barcelona, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.