About the Authors
- Gerben ter Riet
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* E-mail: g.terriet@amc.nl
Affiliation Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Paula Chesley
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Affiliation Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Alan G. Gross
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Affiliation Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Lara Siebeling
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Affiliation Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Patrick Muggensturm
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Affiliation Horten Centre for Patient-Oriented Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Nadine Heller
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Affiliation Ambulatorium Glattal, Zurich-Schwamendingen, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Martin Umbehr
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Affiliations Horten Centre for Patient-Oriented Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Daniela Vollenweider
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, City Hospital Waid, Zurich, Switzerland
- Tsung Yu
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Elie A. Akl
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- Lizzy Brewster
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Affiliation Departments of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Olaf M. Dekkers
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Ingrid Mühlhauser
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Affiliation Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences Faculty, Health Sciences and Education, University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Bernd Richter
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Affiliation Institute of General Practice, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Sonal Singh
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven Goodman
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Affiliation Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Milo A. Puhan
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GtR PC AGG MAP. Performed the experiments: GtR PC AGG LS PM NH MU DV TY EAA LB OMD IM BR SS SNG MAP. Analyzed the data: GtR PC AGG MAP. Wrote the manuscript: GtR PC AGG MAP. Critically revised the manuscript: GtR PC AGG LS PM NH MU DV TY EAA LB OMD IM BR SS SNG MAP. Approved the final version of the manuscript: GtR PC AGG LS PM NH MU DV TY EAA LB OMD IM BR SS SNG MAP. Conduct of substudy 1: GtR MAP LS PM NH MU TY EAA LB OMD IM BR SS. Coded confounders for sub-study 1: DV TY MAP.