About the Authors
- Nina Stoller
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: nina.stoller@hopitalvs.ch
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Maria M. Wertli
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Tabea M. Zaugg
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Alan G. Haynes
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation CTU Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Arnaud Chiolero
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Nicolas Rodondi
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Radoslaw Panczak
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Queensland Centre for Population Research, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Drahomir Aujesky
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors declare no additional funding or competing interests such as consultancies, stock ownership or other payments other than the reported funding sources. Dr. Haynes is affiliated with CTU Bern, University of Bern, which has a staff policy of not accepting honoraria or consultancy fees. However, CTU Bern is involved in design, conduct, or analysis of clinical studies funded by not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. In particular, pharmaceutical and medical device companies provide direct funding to some of these studies. For an up-to-date list of CTU Bern’s conflicts of interest see http://www.ctu.unibe.ch/research/declaration_of_interest/index_eng.html. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.