About the Authors

Maria Garcia-Gil

mgarcia@idiapjgol.info

Affiliations Research Unit, Family Medicine, Girona, Spain, and Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain, Translab Research Group, Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Girona, Catalunya, Spain

Josep-Maria Elorza

Affiliation Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

Marta Banque

Affiliation Cancer Prevention Unit and Cancer Registry, Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Marc Comas-Cufí

Affiliation Research Unit, Family Medicine, Girona, Spain, and Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

Jordi Blanch

Affiliation Research Unit, Family Medicine, Girona, Spain, and Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

Rafel Ramos

Affiliation Primary Care Services, Girona, Spain, and Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), Catalunya, Spain

Leonardo Méndez-Boo

Affiliation Primary Care Information System, Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), Catalunya, Spain

Eduardo Hermosilla

Affiliation Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

Bonaventura Bolibar

Affiliation Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

Daniel Prieto-Alhambra

Affiliations Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGG DPA. Performed the experiments: MGG JME. Analyzed the data: MGG JME MB MC JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGG JME MB MC JB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MGG DPA. Interpretation of data: MGG DPA JME RR LMB EH BB. Revision: MGG DPA JME RR LMB EH BB MB. Final approval: MGG DPA JME RR LMB EH BB MB MC JB.