About the Authors

Noralie Geessink

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Yvonne Schoon

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

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Harry van Goor

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Marcel Olde Rikkert

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

René Melis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Rene.Melis@radboudumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

on behalf of the TOPICS-MDS consortium

Membership of the TOPICS-MDS consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.