About the Authors

Victory ‘Segun Ezeofor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

v.ezeofor@bangor.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom

Nathan Bray

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

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom

Lucy Bryning

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom

Farina Hashmi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health and Society, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Henrik Hoel

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

Affiliations Otivio AS, Oslo, Norway, Department of Vascular Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Daniel Parker

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health and Society, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards

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

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

HH is employed by Otivio AS with funding from The Research Council of Norway (grant no. 285758). Otivio AS has the commercial rights to the INP technology used in this study. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. We adhere fully to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.