Jan Spindler: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draft
Souska Zandi: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Isabel B. Pfister:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8752-8390
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: Visualization
Christin Gerhardt: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Visualization
Justus G. Garweg: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Monica M. Jablonski: Role: Editor
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August
2018
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Volume: 13
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Affiliations
[1
]
Swiss Eye Institute and Berner Augenklinik am Lindenhofspital, Bern, Switzerland
[2
]
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have the following interests: JGG acts as an advisor for several pharmaceutical
companies (Novartis, Bayer, Allergan, Alcon, AbbVie) and contributes to a number of
industry-sponsored international multicenter studies. There are no patents, products
in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence
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