Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Med
Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS
Journal ID (pmc): plosmed
Title:
PLoS Medicine
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, USA
)
ISSN
(Print):
1549-1277
ISSN
(Electronic):
1549-1676
Publication date Collection:
February
2013
Publication date
(Print):
February
2013
Publication date
(Electronic):
5
February
2013
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Electronic Location Identifier: e1001381
Affiliations
[1
]Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[2
]Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
[3
]Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom
[4
]Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada
[5
]London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
[6
]BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom
[7
]School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United
Kingdom
[8
]Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United
Kingdom
[9
]Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Author notes
SS is a full time employee of the BMJ Group but is not involved in the decision making
on manuscripts. The authors declare no other competing interests.
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: EWS KGMM. Contributed to the writing of the
manuscript: EWS KGMM DAvdW JAH PP SS RDR HH DGA. Initiated the PROGRESS Group, organised
the three workshops, coordinated the writing groups, and were the scientific writing
editors for all the papers in the PROGRESS series: HH RDR SS DGA. Guarantors for this
paper: HH RDR DGA. Contributed through workshops and discussions to the development
of the article series: PROGRESS Group.
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: EWS KGMM DAvdW JAH PP SS RDR HH DGA. Agree
with manuscript results and conclusions: EWS KGMM DAvdW JAH PP SS RDR HH DGA.
The Guidelines and Guidance section contains advice on conducting and reporting medical
research.
¶ These authors contributed equally and are joint first authors on this work.
Article
Publisher ID:
PMEDICINE-D-12-02102
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001381
PMC ID: 3564751
PubMed ID: 23393430
SO-VID: b0716021-1218-470f-9009-716dc8b9cead
Copyright statement:
Copyright @
2013
License:
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This series had no explicit funding, but some of the authors were supported by research
grants: PROGRESS is supported by a Partnership grant from the Medical Research Council
(G0902393), involving University College London (HH, AH), University of Oxford (DGA),
Birmingham University (RDR), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IR, PP),
Keele University (PC, DAvdW), and Queen Mary University London (ADT). DGA is supported
by a programme grant from Cancer Research UK (C5529). HH is supported by grants from
the UK National Institute for Health Research (RP-PG-0407-10314) and the Wellcome
Trust (086091/Z/08/Z). JAH is supported by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research and a grant from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation,
and holds a Dalhousie University/CCRF research professorship. KGMM is supported by
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (ZON-MW 918.10.615 and 9120.8004).
EWS was supported by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (grant 9120.8004)
and the NIH (grant NS-042691). RDR is supported by the MRC Midlands Hub for Trials
Methodology Research (Medical Research Council Grant ID G0800808). DAvdW is supported
by the Arthritis Research UK Centre of Excellence in Primary Care. The work of HH,
AH and ADT is supported by the Health eResearch Centre Network (HERC-UK), funded by
The Medical Research Council, in partnership with Arthritis Research UK, the British
Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Economic and Social Research Council, the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the National Institute of Health
Research, the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (Welsh Assembly
Government), the Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Government Health Directorates)
and the Wellcome Trust. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and
analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The views expressed
in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR
or the Department of Health.
