About the Authors

Elizabeth Gargon

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

Affiliation Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sarah L. Gorst

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sgorst@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Karen Matvienko-Sikar

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Paula R. Williamson

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

Affiliation Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

EG and PRW are members of the COMET Management Group. SLG and KMS have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.