About the Authors

Gerald Gartlehner

gerald.gartlehner@donau-uni.ac.at

Affiliations Department for Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrea Chapman

Affiliation Department for Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

Michaela Strobelberger

Affiliation Department for Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

Kylie Thaler

Affiliation Department for Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG KT. Analyzed the data: GG AC MS KT. Wrote the paper: GG AC MS KT.