About the Authors

Rosa Gini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rosa.gini@ars.toscana.it

Affiliations Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Osservatorio di epidemiologia, Florence, Italy, Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Martijn J. Schuemie

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Janssen Research & Development, Epidemiology, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI), New York, New York, United States of America

Alessandro Pasqua

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Search, Italian College of General Practitioners and Primary Care, Florence, Italy

Emanuele Carlini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Pisa, Italy

Francesco Profili

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Osservatorio di epidemiologia, Florence, Italy

Iacopo Cricelli

Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genomedics, Florence, Italy

Patrizio Dazzi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Pisa, Italy

Valentina Barletta

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Osservatorio di epidemiologia, Florence, Italy

Paolo Francesconi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Osservatorio di epidemiologia, Florence, Italy

Francesco Lapi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Search, Italian College of General Practitioners and Primary Care, Florence, Italy

Andrea Donatini

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Assessorato Politiche per la Salute, Bologna, Italy

Giulia Dal Co

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

Affiliation Agenzia Nazionale per il Servizi Sanitari Regionali, Rome, Italy

Modesta Visca

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agenzia Nazionale per il Servizi Sanitari Regionali, Rome, Italy

Mariadonata Bellentani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agenzia Nazionale per il Servizi Sanitari Regionali, Rome, Italy

Miriam Sturkenboom

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Osservatorio di epidemiologia, Florence, Italy

Niek Klazinga

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I Cricelli, A Pasqua and F Lapi are employed by Genomedics, which is a commercial company, and M J Schuemie is employed by Janssen Research and Development LLC, which is a commercial company. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.