About the Authors

Adrian Gheorghe

Affiliations Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Tracy E. Roberts

Affiliation Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jonathan C. Ives

Affiliation Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Benjamin R. Fletcher

Affiliation Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Melanie Calvert

m.calvert@bham.ac.uk

Affiliations Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, MRC Midland Hub Trials Methodology Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG MC TR JI. Performed the experiments: AG JI BF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG JI BF. Wrote the paper: AG MC TR JI BF.