About the Authors

Andrea Icks

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Icks, Heiner Claessen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Centre for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Heiner Claessen

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Icks, Heiner Claessen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

heiner.claessen@ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Centre for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Tatjana Kvitkina

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Centre for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Maria Narres

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Health Services Research and Health Economics, Centre for Health and Society, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Centre for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Michael Weingärtner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, National Information System of Federal Health Monitoring (Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes), Erlangen Stroke Project (ESPro), Erlangen, Germany

Stefan Schwab

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Peter L. Kolominsky-Rabas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, National Information System of Federal Health Monitoring (Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes), Erlangen Stroke Project (ESPro), Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.