About the Authors

Karla Salas-Gama

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

ksalas@vhebron.net

Affiliations Quality, Process and Innovation Direction, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, Health Services Research Group, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health–CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain

Igho J. Onakpoya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jorge Coronado Daza

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

Affiliation Medicine Department, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

Rafael Perera

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Carl J. Heneghan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

IJO and CJH have held grant funding from the NIHR Evidence Synthesis Working Group (ESWG Grant no: 390). CJH has received expenses and fees for his media work (including payments from BBC Radio 4 Inside Health). He has received expenses from the WHO, FDA, and holds grant funding from the NIHR, the NIHR School of Primary Care Research, the NIHR BRC Oxford and the WHO. He has received financial remuneration from an asbestos case and given free legal advice on mesh cases. He has also received income from the publication of a series of toolkit books published by Blackwells. On occasion, he receives expenses for teaching EBM and is also paid for his GP work in NHS out of hours (contract with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust). RP hold grant funding from the NIHR Programme of Applied Research. He leads a programme looking at how general practitioners manage chronic kidney disease and chronic heart failure. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. KS and JC have no interests to declare.