About the Authors

Daniela Rohde

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

danielamrohde@rcsi.ie

Affiliation Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Niamh A. Merriman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Frank Doyle

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Kathleen Bennett

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

David Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric and Stroke Medicine, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Anne Hickey

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

Affiliation Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

FD has accepted an honorarium from Abbvie for speaking on the topic of medication adherence. DW reports personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Bristol Myers Squibb, and personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.