About the Authors

Borja García-Lorenzo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bogarcia@clinic.cat

Affiliation Assessment of Innovations and New Technologies Unit, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Carla Fernández-Barceló

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Assessment of Innovations and New Technologies Unit, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Francisco Maduell

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

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Laura Sampietro-Colom

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Assessment of Innovations and New Technologies Unit, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: BGL, CFB, FM, LSC reports grants from FMC during the conduct of the study. BGL reports conferences fees and expenses from FMC during the conduct of the study. FM reports personal fees from FMC during the conduct of the study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.