About the Authors

Victor van der Meer

v.van_der_meer@lumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Wilbert B. van den Hout

Affiliation Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Moira J. Bakker

Affiliation Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Klaus F. Rabe

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Peter J. Sterk

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Willem J. J. Assendelft

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Job Kievit

Affiliation Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jacob K. Sont

Affiliations Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

on behalf of the SMASHING (Self-Management in Asthma Supported by Hospitals, ICT, Nurses and General Practitioners) Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM WBH KFR PJS WJJA JK JKS. Performed the experiments: VM MJB JKS. Analyzed the data: VM WBH JKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM WBH MJB JK JKS. Wrote the paper: VM WBH MJB KFR PJS WJJA JK JKS.