About the Authors

Simon Johannes Gairing

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Peter Robert Galle

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Jörn Markus Schattenberg

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Karel Kostev

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology, IQVIA, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Christian Labenz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Christian.labenz@unimedizin-mainz.de

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Center Mainz (CCM), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

Krael Kostev is Scientific Principal-Epidemiology Research at IMS Health (IQVIA) in Frankfurt (Germany). However, IQVIA has no influence on the content or publication of this manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors disclose no potential financial or non-financial conflicts of interest.