About the Authors

Shixuan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shixuan Zhang, Christine Kriza

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health (IZPH), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

Christine Kriza

Contributed equally to this work with: Shixuan Zhang, Christine Kriza

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health (IZPH), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, National Leading-Edge Cluster Medical Technologies “Medical Valley EMN”, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

Sandra Schaller

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health (IZPH), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

Peter L. Kolominsky-Rabas

Peter.Kolominsky@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health (IZPH), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, National Leading-Edge Cluster Medical Technologies “Medical Valley EMN”, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

National Leading-Edge Cluster Medical Technologies ‘Medical Valley EMN’

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ PLKR. Performed the experiments: SZ. Analyzed the data: SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CK SS. Wrote the paper: SZ CK. Revised the manuscript: SS PLKR.