About the Authors

Daveena Meeks

Contributed equally to this work with: Daveena Meeks, Eugene Oteng-Ntim

Affiliations King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Intensive Care and Anaesthetics, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, United Kingdom

Susan E. Robinson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Haematology, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

David Macleod

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Eugene Oteng-Ntim

Contributed equally to this work with: Daveena Meeks, Eugene Oteng-Ntim

Eugene.oteng-ntim@gstt.nhs.uk

Affiliations King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Women’s Health Academic Centre, King's College London and King's Health Partners, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The author have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EO D. Meeks SR. Formal analysis: D. Meeks EO. Investigation: D. Meeks. Methodology: EO D. Meeks. Project administration: EO D. Meeks. Resources: EO SR. Software: D. Macleod. Supervision: EO. Validation: D. Macleod. Visualization: D. Meeks. Writing – original draft: D. Meeks EO. Writing – review & editing: D. Meeks EO.