About the Authors

Sven Karstens

sven.karstens@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefanie Joos

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jonathan C. Hill

Affiliation Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele/Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Katja Krug

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Joachim Szecsenyi

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jost Steinhäuser

Affiliation Institute of Family medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK SJ KK J. Szecsenyi J. Steinhäuser. Performed the experiments: SK J. Steinhäuser. Analyzed the data: SK J. Steinhäuser JCH. Wrote the paper: SK SJ JCH KK J. Szecsenyi J. Steinhäuser.