About the Authors

Javier Louro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Servei d’Epidemiologia i Avaluació, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Doctoral Programme in Methodology of Biomedical Research and Public Health in Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Marta Román

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mroman@parcdesalutmar.cat

Affiliations IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Servei d’Epidemiologia i Avaluació, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Margarita Posso

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Servei d’Epidemiologia i Avaluació, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Ivonne Vázquez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Servei de Patologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Francina Saladié

Roles Resources

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Service, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain

Ana Rodriguez-Arana

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Servei de Diagnòstic per la imatge, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

M. Jesús Quintana

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, University Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Laia Domingo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Servei d’Epidemiologia i Avaluació, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Marisa Baré

Roles Resources

Affiliations Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Clinical Epidemiology and Cancer Screening, Parc Taulí University Hospital, Sabadell, Spain

Rafael Marcos-Gragera

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Health, Epidemiology Unit and Girona Cancer Registry, Oncology Coordination Plan, Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Girona, Spain

María Vernet-Tomas

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Servei d’Obstetricia i Ginecologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Maria Sala

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliations IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Servei d’Epidemiologia i Avaluació, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Castells

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

Affiliations IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain, Servei d’Epidemiologia i Avaluació, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

on behalf of the BELE and IRIS Study Groups

Complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.