About the Authors

Simon Paul Jenkins

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

s.jenkins.4@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Melanie J. Calvert

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

Affiliations Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Centre West Midlands, and National Institute for Health Research Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Heather Draper

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

Affiliation Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Professor Calvert is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator and receives funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre and NIHR ARC West Midlands at the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Health Data Research UK, Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation), Macmillan Cancer Support, UCB Pharma. MC has received personal fees from Astellas, Takeda, Merck, Daiichi Sankyo, Glaukos, GSK and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) outside the submitted work. The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.