About the Authors

María José Pérez-Lacasta

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Economics, University Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, Research Group on Statistics, Economic Evaluation and Health (GRAEES), Reus, Spain

Montserrat Martínez-Alonso

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Group on Statistics, Economic Evaluation and Health (GRAEES), Reus, Spain, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida-IRBLLEIDA, Lleida, Spain, Lleida Biomedical Research Institute (IRBLLEIDA), Lleida, Spain

Montse Garcia

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

Maria Sala

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), Madrid, Spain

Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérez

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), Madrid, Spain, Evaluation Unit of the Canary Islands Health Service (SESCS), Tenerife, Spain

Carmen Vidal

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

Núria Codern-Bové

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ÀreaQ, Evaluation and Qualitative Research, Barcelona, Spain, Nursing and Occupational Therapy School (EUIT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Terrassa, Spain

Maria Feijoo-Cid

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, Grup de REcerca Multidisciplinar en SAlut i Societat (GREMSAS), Barcelona, Spain

Ana Toledo-Chávarri

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Evaluation Unit of the Canary Islands Health Service (SESCS), Tenerife, Spain, Canary Islands Foundation of Health Research (FUNCANIS), Tenerife, Spain

Àngels Cardona

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ÀreaQ, Evaluation and Qualitative Research, Barcelona, Spain

Anna Pons

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Catalan Health Institut (ICS), Lleida, Spain

Misericòrdia Carles-Lavila

Contributed equally to this work with: Misericòrdia Carles-Lavila, Montserrat Rue

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

misericordia.carles@urv.cat (MCL); montse.rue@cmb.udl.cat (MR)

Affiliations Department of Economics, University Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, Research Group on Statistics, Economic Evaluation and Health (GRAEES), Reus, Spain, Research Centre on Industrial and Public Economics, (CREIP), Reus, Spain

Montserrat Rue

Contributed equally to this work with: Misericòrdia Carles-Lavila, Montserrat Rue

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

misericordia.carles@urv.cat (MCL); montse.rue@cmb.udl.cat (MR)

Affiliations Research Group on Statistics, Economic Evaluation and Health (GRAEES), Reus, Spain, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida-IRBLLEIDA, Lleida, Spain, Lleida Biomedical Research Institute (IRBLLEIDA), Lleida, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), Madrid, Spain

with the InforMa Group

Membership list can be found in the Acknowledgments section.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.