About the Authors

Joeri K. Tijdink

j.tijdink@vumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Lex M. Bouter

Affiliations Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Coosje L. S. Veldkamp

Affiliation Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands

Peter M. van de Ven

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Jelte M. Wicherts

Affiliation Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands

Yvo M. Smulders

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JT LB YS CV PvdV JW. Data curation: JT PvdV. Formal analysis: JT YS PvdV. Funding acquisition: JT YS. Investigation: JT CV. Methodology: JT YS LB PvdV. Project administration: JT. Resources: JT YS LB. Software: JT. Supervision: YS LB JW. Validation: JT CV. Visualization: JT PvdV. Writing – original draft: JT. Writing – review & editing: JT LB CV PvdV JW YS.