About the Authors

Anja Viehmann

Affiliation Institute for General Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Christine Kersting

Affiliation Institute for General Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Anika Thielmann

Affiliation Institute for General Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Birgitta Weltermann

birgitta.weltermann@uk-essen.de

Affiliation Institute for General Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BW AV. Data curation: AV CK. Formal analysis: AV CK. Funding acquisition: BW. Investigation: AV BW CK AT. Methodology: AV BW. Project administration: AV BW. Validation: CK. Visualization: AV CK. Writing – original draft: AV BW. Writing – review & editing: BW AT CK.