About the Authors

Christian Brettschneider

c.brettschneider@uke.de

Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hanna Leicht

Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Horst Bickel

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Anne Dahlhaus

Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Goethe-University Frankfurt on the Main, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany

Angela Fuchs

Affiliation Department of General Practice, University of Düsseldorf Medical Center, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jochen Gensichen

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Wolfgang Maier

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Steffi Riedel-Heller

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Ingmar Schäfer

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Gerhard Schön

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Siegfried Weyerer

Affiliation Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Birgitt Wiese

Affiliation Institute for Biometry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hendrik van den Bussche

Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik van den Bussche, Martin Scherer

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Martin Scherer

Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik van den Bussche, Martin Scherer

Affiliation Department of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hans-Helmut König

Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

the MultiCare Study Group

Membership of the MultiCare Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB AD AF JG WM SRH IS GS SW BW HvdB MS HHK. Analyzed the data: CB HL HHK. Wrote the paper: CB HL HHK.