About the Authors

Bernd Kowall

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

bernd.kowall@uk-essen.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Fabian Standl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Florian Oesterling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Cancer Registry of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bochum, Germany

Bastian Brune

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliations Medical Emergency Service of the City of Essen, Essen, Germany, Department for Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany

Marcus Brinkmann

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Center for Clinical Trials, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Marcel Dudda

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliations Medical Emergency Service of the City of Essen, Essen, Germany, Department for Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany

Peter Pflaumer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Statistics, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Karl-Heinz Jöckel

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Andreas Stang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.