About the Authors

Bianca Kollhorst

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

kollhorst@leibniz-bips.de

Affiliation Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Kathrin Jobski

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Outpatient Care and Pharmacoepidemiology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Jutta Krappweis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger-Allee, Bonn, Germany

Tania Schink

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Edeltraut Garbe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biometry and Data Management, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Niklas Schmedt

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

Affiliation InGef—Institute for Applied Health Research, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Bianca Kollhorst and Tania Schink are working and Edeltraut Garbe, Kathrin Jobski, and Niklas Schmedt were working at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS. Unrelated to this study, BIPS occasionally conducts studies financed by the pharmaceutical industry. Almost exclusively, these are post-authorization safety studies (PASS) requested by health authorities. The studies and the resulting publications are not influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Edeltraut Garbe has been consultant to Bayer, Nycomed, Takeda, Astellas, Novartis, and GSK unrelated to the subject of this study. Jutta Krappweis is an employee of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.