Erratum to: Methods for evaluating medical tests and biomarkers

Gowri Gopalakrishna; Miranda Langendam; Rob Scholten; Patrick Bossuyt; Mariska Leeflang; Anna Noel-Storr; James Thomas; Iain Marshall; Byron Wallace; Penny Whiting; Clare Davenport; Mariska Leeflang; Gowri GopalaKrishna; Isabel de Salis; Sue Mallett; Robert Wolff; Penny Whiting; Richard Riley; Marie Westwood; Jos Kleinen; Gary Collins; Hans Reitsma; Karel Moons; Antonia Zapf; Annika Hoyer; Katharina Kramer; Oliver Kuss; J Ensor; J J Deeks; E C Martin; R D Riley; Gerta Rücker; Susanne Steinhauser; Martin Schumacher; Richard Riley; Joie Ensor; Kym Snell; Brian Willis; Thomas Debray; Karel Moons; Jon Deeks; Gary Collins; Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano; Brian Willis; Clare Davenport; Sue Mallett; Sian Taylor-Phillips; Chris Hyde; Jon Deeks; Sue Mallett; Stuart A Taylor; Gauraang Batnagar; STREAMLINE COLON Investigators; STREAMLINE LUNG Investigators; METRIC Investigators; Sian Taylor-Phillips; Lavinia Ferrante Di Ruffano; Farah Seedat; Aileen Clarke; Jon Deeks; Sarah Byron; Frances Nixon; Rebecca Albrow; Thomas Walker; Carla Deakin; Chris Hyde; Zhivko Zhelev; Harriet Hunt; Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano; Yaling Yang; Lucy Abel; James Buchanan; Thomas Fanshawe; Bethany Shinkins; Laure Wynants; Jan Verbakel; Sabine Van Huffel; Dirk Timmerman; Ben Van Calster; Mariska Leeflang; Aeliko Zwinderman; Patrick Bossuyt; Jason Oke; Jack O'Sullivan; Rafael Perera; Brian Nicholson; Hannah L Bromley; Tracy E Roberts; Adele Francis; Denniis Petrie; G Bruce Mann; Kinga Malottki; Holly Smith; Jon Deeks; Lucinda Billingham; Alice Sitch; Sue Mallett; Jon Deeks; Oke Gerke; Mie Holm-Vilstrup; Eivind Antonsen Segtnan; Ulrich Halekoh; Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen; Bernard G Francq; Jon Deeks; Alice Sitch; Jac Dinnes; Julie Parkes; Walter Gregory; Jenny Hewison; Doug Altman; William Rosenberg; Peter Selby; Julien Asselineau; Paul Perez; Aïssatou Paye; Emilie Bessede; Cécile Proust-Lima; Christiana Naaktgeboren; Joris de Groot; Anne Rutjes; Patrick Bossuyt; Johannes Reitsma; Karel Moons; Gary Collins; Emmanuel Ogundimu; Jonathan Cook; Yannick Le Manach; Doug Altman; Laure Wynants; Yvonne Vergouwe; Sabine Van Huffel; Dirk Timmerman; Ben Van Calster; Romin Pajouheshnia; Rolf Groenwold; Karen Moons; Johannes Reitsma; Linda Peelen; Ben Van Calster; Daan Nieboer; Yvonne Vergouwe; Bavo De Cock; Micael J Pencina; Ewout W Steyerberg; Jennifer Cooper; Sian Taylor-Phillips; Nick Parsons; Chris Stinton; Steve Smith; Andy Dickens; Rachel Jordan; Alexandra Enocson; David Fitzmaurice; Alice Sitch; Peymane Adab; Bernard G Francq; Charles Boachie; Gaj Vidmar; Karoline Freeman; Martin Connock; Sian Taylor-Phillips; Rachel Court; Aileen Clarke; Joris de Groot; Christiana Naaktgeboren; Hans Reitsma; Carl Moons; Jessica Harris; Andrew Mumford; Zoe Plummer; Kurtis Lee; Barnaby Reeves; Chris Rogers; Veerle Verheyden; Gianni D Angelini; Gavin J Murphy; Jeremy Huddy; Melody Ni; Katherine Good; Graham Cooke; Patrick Bossuyt; George Hanna; Jie Ma; Doug Altman; Gary Collins; K G M Carl Moons; Joris A H de Groot; Sue Mallett; Doug G Altman; Johannes B Reitsma; Gary S Collins; Karel G M Moons; Douglas G Altman; Johannes B Reitsma; Gary S Collins; Adina Najwa Kamarudin; Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona; Trevor Cox; Melody Ni; Jeremy Huddy; Simone Borsci; George Hanna; Teresa Pérez; M Carmen Pardo; Angel Candela-Toha; Alfonso Muriel; Javier Zamora; Sabina Sanghera; Syed Mohiuddin; Richard Martin; Jenny Donovan; Joanna Coast; Mikyung Kelly Seo; John Cairns; Elizabeth Mitchell; Alison Smith; Judy Wright; Peter Hall; Michael Messenger; Nicola Calder; Nyantara Wickramasekera; Karen Vinall-Collier; Andrew Lewington; Romin Pajouheshnia; Johanna Damen; Rolf Groenwold; Karel Moons; Linda Peelen; Michael Messenger; David Cairns; Alison Smith; Michelle Hutchinson; Judy Wright; Peter Hall; Nicola Calder; Cathie Sturgeon; Liz Mitchel; Rebecca Kift; Sofia Christakoudi; Manohursingh Rungall; Paula Mobillo; Rosa Montero; Tjir-Li Tsui; Sui Phin Kon; Beatriz Tucker; Steven Sacks; Chris Farmer; Terry Strom; Paramit Chowdhury; Irene Rebollo-Mesa; Maria Hernandez-Fuentes; Johanna A A G Damen; Thomas P A Debray; Pauline Heus; Lotty Hooft; Karel G M Moons; Romin Pajouheshnia; Johannes B Reitsma; Rob J P M Scholten; Johanna A A G Damen; Lotty Hooft; Ewoud Schuit; Thomas P A Debray; Gary S Collins; Ioanna Tzoulaki; Camille M Lassale; George C M Siontis; Virginia Chiocchia; Corran Roberts; Michael Maia Schlüssel; Stephen Gerry; James A Black; Pauline Heus; Yvonne T van der Schouw; Linda M Peelen; Karel G M Moons; Johanna A A G Damen; Thomas P A Debray; Pauline Heus; Lotty Hooft; Karel G M Moons; Romin Pajouheshnia; Johannes B Reitsma; Rob J P M Scholten; Jie Ma; Doug Altman; Gary Collins; Graeme Spence; David McCartney; Ann van den Bruel; Daniel Lasserson; Gail Hayward; Werner Vach; Antoinette de Jong; Coreline Burggraaff; Otto Hoekstra; Josée Zijlstra; Henrica de Vet; Harriet Hunt; Chris Hyde; Sara Graziadio; Joy Allen; Louise Johnston; Rachel O'Leary; Michael Power; Joy Allen; Sara Graziadio; Louise Johnson; Rachel O'Leary; Michael Power; Ray Waters; John Simpson; Louise Johnston; Joy Allen; Sara Graziadio; Rachel O'Leary; Ray Waters; Michael Power; Sue Mallett; Thomas R Fanshawe; Peter Phillips; Andrew Plumb; Emma Helbren; Steve Halligan; Stuart A Taylor; Alastair Gale; Sue Mallett; Peggy Sekula; Douglas G Altman; Willi Sauerbrei; Sue Mallett; Thomas R Fanshawe; Julia R Forman; Susan J Dutton; Yemisi Takwoingi; Elizabeth M Hensor; Thomas E Nichols; Bethany Shinkins; Yaling Yang; Lucy Abel; Lavinia Ferrante Di Ruffano; Thomas Fanshawe; Emmanuelle Kempf; Raphael Porcher; Jennifer de Beyer; Karel Moons; Douglas Altman; Hans Reitsma; Sally Hopewell; Willi Sauerbrei; Gary Collins; John Dennis; Beverley Shields; Angus Jones; William Henley; Ewan Pearson; Andrew Hattersley; MASTERMIND consortium; Pauline Heus; Johanna A A G Damen; Romin Pajouheshnia; Rob J P M Scholten; Johannes B Reitsma; Gary S Collins; Douglas G Altman; Karel G M Moons; Lotty Hooft; Beverley Shields; John Dennis; Angus Jones; William Henley; Ewan Pearson; Andrew Hattersley; MASTERMIND consortium; Fueloep Scheibler; Anne Rummer; Sibylle Sturtz; Robert Großelfinger; Katie Banister; Craig Ramsay; Augusto Azuara-Blanco; Jonathan Cook; Charles Boachie; Jennifer Burr; Manjula Kumarasamy; Rupert Bourne; Ijeoma Uchegbu; Simone Borsci; Jennifer Murphy; George Hanna; Ijeoma Uchegbu; Alex Carter; Jen Murphy; Melody Ni; Joachim Marti; Julie Eatock; Ijeoma Uchegbu; Julie Robotham; Maria Dudareva; Mark Gilchrist; Alison Holmes; Ijeoma Uchegbu; Simone Borsci; Phillip Monaghan; Sarah Lord; Andrew StJohn; Sverre Sandberg; Christa Cobbaert; Lieselotte Lennartz; Wilma Verhagen-Kamerbeek; Christoph Ebert; Patrick Bossuyt; Andrea Horvath; Test Evaluation Working Group of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine; Kevin Jenniskens; Christiana Naaktgeboren; Johannes Reitsma; Karel Moons; Joris de Groot; Chris Hyde; Jaime Peters; Bogdan Grigore; Jaime Peters; Chris Hyde; Chris Hyde; Obi Ukoumunne; Jaime Peters; Zhivko Zhelev; Brooke Levis; Andrea Benedetti; Alexander W Levis; John P A Ioannidis; Ian Shrier; Pim Cuijpers; Simon Gilbody; Lorie A Kloda; Dean McMillan; Scott B Patten; Russell J Steele; Roy C Ziegelstein; Charles H Bombardier; Flavia de Lima Osório; Jesse R Fann; Dwenda Gjerdingen; Femke Lamers; Manote Lotrakul; Sonia R Loureiro; Bernd Löwe; Juwita Shaaban; Lesley Stafford; Henk C P M van Weert; Mary A Whooley; Linda S Williams; Karin A Wittkampf; Albert S Yeung; Brett D Thombs; Jaime Peters; Chris Cooper; James Buchanan; Tom Nieto; Claire Smith; Olga Tucker; Janine Dretzke; Andrew Beggs; Nirmala Rai; Clare Davenport; Sue Bayliss; Simon Stevens; Kym Snell; Sue Mallet; Jon Deeks; Sudha Sundar; Emma Hall; Nuria Porta; David Lorente Estelles; Johann de Bono; CTC-STOP protocol development group

doi:10.1186/s41512-017-0011-4

Erratum to: Methods for evaluating medical tests and biomarkers

Diagn Progn Res. 2017 Mar 30:1:11. doi: 10.1186/s41512-017-0011-4. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Gowri Gopalakrishna¹, Miranda Langendam¹, Rob Scholten², Patrick Bossuyt¹, Mariska Leeflang¹, Anna Noel-Storr³, James Thomas⁴, Iain Marshall⁵, Byron Wallace⁶, Penny Whiting⁷, Clare Davenport⁸, Mariska Leeflang⁹, Gowri GopalaKrishna⁹, Isabel de Salis¹⁰, Sue Mallett¹¹, Robert Wolff¹², Penny Whiting¹³, Richard Riley¹⁴, Marie Westwood¹², Jos Kleinen¹², Gary Collins¹⁵, Hans Reitsma^{16

17}, Karel Moons¹⁶, Antonia Zapf¹⁸, Annika Hoyer¹⁹, Katharina Kramer¹⁸, Oliver Kuss¹⁹, J Ensor²⁰, J J Deeks²¹, E C Martin²², R D Riley²⁰, Gerta Rücker²³, Susanne Steinhauser²⁴, Martin Schumacher²³, Richard Riley²⁵, Joie Ensor²⁵, Kym Snell²⁶, Brian Willis²⁷, Thomas Debray²⁸, Karel Moons²⁹, Jon Deeks²⁷, Gary Collins³⁰, Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano³¹, Brian Willis³¹, Clare Davenport³¹, Sue Mallett³¹, Sian Taylor-Phillips³², Chris Hyde³³, Jon Deeks³¹, Sue Mallett³⁴, Stuart A Taylor³⁵, Gauraang Batnagar³⁵; STREAMLINE COLON Investigators; STREAMLINE LUNG Investigators; METRIC Investigators; Sian Taylor-Phillips³⁶, Lavinia Ferrante Di Ruffano³⁷, Farah Seedat³⁸, Aileen Clarke³⁸, Jon Deeks³⁷, Sarah Byron³⁹, Frances Nixon³⁹, Rebecca Albrow³⁹, Thomas Walker³⁹, Carla Deakin³⁹, Chris Hyde⁴⁰, Zhivko Zhelev⁴⁰, Harriet Hunt⁴⁰, Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano⁴¹, Yaling Yang⁴², Lucy Abel⁴², James Buchanan⁴², Thomas Fanshawe⁴², Bethany Shinkins⁴³, Laure Wynants^{44

45}, Jan Verbakel⁴⁶, Sabine Van Huffel^{44

45}, Dirk Timmerman⁴⁷, Ben Van Calster^{47

48}, Mariska Leeflang⁴⁹, Aeliko Zwinderman⁴⁹, Patrick Bossuyt⁴⁹, Jason Oke⁵⁰, Jack O'Sullivan⁵⁰, Rafael Perera⁵⁰, Brian Nicholson⁵⁰, Hannah L Bromley⁵¹, Tracy E Roberts⁵¹, Adele Francis⁵², Denniis Petrie⁵³, G Bruce Mann⁵⁴, Kinga Malottki⁵⁵, Holly Smith⁵⁵, Jon Deeks⁵⁶, Lucinda Billingham⁵⁵, Alice Sitch⁵⁷, Sue Mallett⁵⁷, Jon Deeks⁵⁷, Oke Gerke⁵⁸, Mie Holm-Vilstrup⁵⁸, Eivind Antonsen Segtnan⁵⁸, Ulrich Halekoh⁵⁹, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen⁶⁰, Bernard G Francq⁶¹, Jon Deeks⁶², Alice Sitch⁶², Jac Dinnes⁶², Julie Parkes⁶³, Walter Gregory⁶⁴, Jenny Hewison⁶⁴, Doug Altman⁶⁵, William Rosenberg⁶⁶, Peter Selby⁶⁴, Julien Asselineau⁶⁷, Paul Perez⁶⁷, Aïssatou Paye⁶⁷, Emilie Bessede⁶⁸, Cécile Proust-Lima⁶⁹, Christiana Naaktgeboren⁷⁰, Joris de Groot⁷⁰, Anne Rutjes^{71

72}, Patrick Bossuyt⁷³, Johannes Reitsma⁷⁰, Karel Moons⁷⁰, Gary Collins⁷⁴, Emmanuel Ogundimu⁷⁴, Jonathan Cook⁷⁴, Yannick Le Manach⁷⁵, Doug Altman⁷⁴, Laure Wynants^{76

77}, Yvonne Vergouwe⁷⁸, Sabine Van Huffel^{76

77}, Dirk Timmerman⁷⁹, Ben Van Calster^{79

80}, Romin Pajouheshnia⁸¹, Rolf Groenwold⁸¹, Karen Moons⁸¹, Johannes Reitsma^{81

82}, Linda Peelen⁸¹, Ben Van Calster^{83

84}, Daan Nieboer⁸⁴, Yvonne Vergouwe⁸⁴, Bavo De Cock⁸³, Micael J Pencina⁸⁵, Ewout W Steyerberg⁸⁴, Jennifer Cooper⁸⁶, Sian Taylor-Phillips⁸⁶, Nick Parsons⁸⁶, Chris Stinton⁸⁶, Steve Smith⁸⁷, Andy Dickens⁸⁸, Rachel Jordan⁸⁸, Alexandra Enocson⁸⁸, David Fitzmaurice⁸⁸, Alice Sitch⁸⁸, Peymane Adab⁸⁸, Bernard G Francq⁸⁹, Charles Boachie⁸⁹, Gaj Vidmar^{90

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92}, Karoline Freeman⁹³, Martin Connock⁹³, Sian Taylor-Phillips⁹³, Rachel Court⁹³, Aileen Clarke⁹³, Joris de Groot⁹⁴, Christiana Naaktgeboren⁹⁴, Hans Reitsma⁹⁴, Carl Moons⁹⁴, Jessica Harris⁹⁵, Andrew Mumford⁹⁶, Zoe Plummer⁹⁵, Kurtis Lee⁹⁷, Barnaby Reeves⁹⁵, Chris Rogers⁹⁵, Veerle Verheyden⁹⁸, Gianni D Angelini⁹⁸, Gavin J Murphy⁹⁹, Jeremy Huddy¹⁰⁰, Melody Ni¹⁰⁰, Katherine Good¹⁰¹, Graham Cooke¹⁰², Patrick Bossuyt¹⁰³, George Hanna¹⁰⁰, Jie Ma¹⁰⁴, Doug Altman¹⁰⁴, Gary Collins¹⁰⁴, K G M Carl Moons¹⁰⁵, Joris A H de Groot¹⁰⁵, Sue Mallett¹⁰⁶, Doug G Altman¹⁰⁷, Johannes B Reitsma^{105

108}, Gary S Collins¹⁰⁷, Karel G M Moons¹⁰⁹, Douglas G Altman¹¹⁰, Johannes B Reitsma^{109

111}, Gary S Collins¹¹⁰, Adina Najwa Kamarudin¹¹², Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona¹¹², Trevor Cox¹¹², Melody Ni¹¹³, Jeremy Huddy¹¹³, Simone Borsci¹¹³, George Hanna¹¹³, Teresa Pérez¹¹⁴, M Carmen Pardo¹¹⁵, Angel Candela-Toha¹¹⁶, Alfonso Muriel¹¹⁷, Javier Zamora^{118

119}, Sabina Sanghera¹²⁰, Syed Mohiuddin¹²⁰, Richard Martin¹²¹, Jenny Donovan¹²¹, Joanna Coast¹²⁰, Mikyung Kelly Seo¹²², John Cairns^{122

123}, Elizabeth Mitchell¹²⁴, Alison Smith¹²⁴, Judy Wright¹²⁴, Peter Hall¹²⁵, Michael Messenger¹²⁶, Nicola Calder¹²⁷, Nyantara Wickramasekera¹²⁴, Karen Vinall-Collier¹²⁸, Andrew Lewington¹²⁶, Romin Pajouheshnia¹²⁹, Johanna Damen^{129

130}, Rolf Groenwold¹²⁹, Karel Moons¹²⁹, Linda Peelen¹²⁹, Michael Messenger¹³¹, David Cairns¹³², Alison Smith¹³³, Michelle Hutchinson¹³⁴, Judy Wright¹³³, Peter Hall¹³⁵, Nicola Calder¹³¹, Cathie Sturgeon¹³⁶, Liz Mitchel¹³³, Rebecca Kift¹³⁷, Sofia Christakoudi^{138

139}, Manohursingh Rungall^{138

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141}, Paula Mobillo^{138

140}, Rosa Montero^{138

141}, Tjir-Li Tsui¹⁴⁰, Sui Phin Kon¹⁴², Beatriz Tucker¹⁴², Steven Sacks¹³⁸, Chris Farmer¹⁴³, Terry Strom¹⁴³, Paramit Chowdhury¹⁴⁴, Irene Rebollo-Mesa^{138

139}, Maria Hernandez-Fuentes^{138

140}, Johanna A A G Damen¹⁴⁵, Thomas P A Debray¹⁴⁵, Pauline Heus¹⁴⁶, Lotty Hooft¹⁴⁶, Karel G M Moons¹⁴⁷, Romin Pajouheshnia¹⁴⁷, Johannes B Reitsma¹⁴⁵, Rob J P M Scholten¹⁴⁶, Johanna A A G Damen¹⁴⁸, Lotty Hooft¹⁴⁹, Ewoud Schuit¹⁴⁸, Thomas P A Debray¹⁴⁸, Gary S Collins¹⁵⁰, Ioanna Tzoulaki¹⁵¹, Camille M Lassale¹⁵¹, George C M Siontis¹⁵², Virginia Chiocchia¹⁵⁰, Corran Roberts¹⁵⁰, Michael Maia Schlüssel¹⁵⁰, Stephen Gerry¹⁵⁰, James A Black¹⁵³, Pauline Heus¹⁴⁹, Yvonne T van der Schouw¹⁵⁴, Linda M Peelen¹⁵⁴, Karel G M Moons¹⁵⁴, Johanna A A G Damen¹⁵⁵, Thomas P A Debray¹⁵⁵, Pauline Heus¹⁵⁶, Lotty Hooft¹⁵⁶, Karel G M Moons¹⁵⁷, Romin Pajouheshnia¹⁵⁷, Johannes B Reitsma¹⁵⁵, Rob J P M Scholten¹⁵⁶, Jie Ma¹⁵⁸, Doug Altman¹⁵⁸, Gary Collins¹⁵⁸, Graeme Spence¹⁵⁹, David McCartney¹⁵⁹, Ann van den Bruel¹⁵⁹, Daniel Lasserson¹⁶⁰, Gail Hayward¹⁵⁹, Werner Vach¹⁶¹, Antoinette de Jong¹⁶², Coreline Burggraaff¹⁶³, Otto Hoekstra¹⁶², Josée Zijlstra¹⁶³, Henrica de Vet¹⁶⁴, Harriet Hunt¹⁶⁵, Chris Hyde¹⁶⁵, Sara Graziadio¹⁶⁶, Joy Allen¹⁶⁷, Louise Johnston¹⁶⁷, Rachel O'Leary¹⁶⁶, Michael Power¹⁶⁶, Joy Allen¹⁶⁸, Sara Graziadio¹⁶⁹, Louise Johnson¹⁶⁸, Rachel O'Leary¹⁶⁹, Michael Power¹⁶⁹, Ray Waters¹⁶⁸, John Simpson¹⁶⁸, Louise Johnston¹⁷⁰, Joy Allen¹⁷⁰, Sara Graziadio¹⁷¹, Rachel O'Leary¹⁷¹, Ray Waters¹⁷⁰, Michael Power¹⁷¹, Sue Mallett¹⁷², Thomas R Fanshawe¹⁷³, Peter Phillips¹⁷⁴, Andrew Plumb¹⁷⁵, Emma Helbren¹⁷⁵, Steve Halligan¹⁷⁵, Stuart A Taylor¹⁷⁵, Alastair Gale¹⁷⁴, Sue Mallett¹⁷⁶, Peggy Sekula¹⁷⁷, Douglas G Altman¹⁷⁸, Willi Sauerbrei¹⁷⁷, Sue Mallett¹⁷⁹, Thomas R Fanshawe¹⁸⁰, Julia R Forman¹⁸¹, Susan J Dutton¹⁸², Yemisi Takwoingi¹⁷⁹, Elizabeth M Hensor¹⁸³, Thomas E Nichols¹⁸⁴, Bethany Shinkins¹⁸⁵, Yaling Yang¹⁸⁶, Lucy Abel¹⁸⁶, Lavinia Ferrante Di Ruffano¹⁸⁷, Thomas Fanshawe¹⁸⁶, Emmanuelle Kempf^{188

189}, Raphael Porcher¹⁹⁰, Jennifer de Beyer¹⁸⁸, Karel Moons¹⁹¹, Douglas Altman¹⁸⁸, Hans Reitsma¹⁹¹, Sally Hopewell¹⁸⁸, Willi Sauerbrei¹⁹², Gary Collins¹⁸⁸, John Dennis¹⁹³, Beverley Shields¹⁹⁴, Angus Jones¹⁹⁴, William Henley¹⁹³, Ewan Pearson¹⁹⁵, Andrew Hattersley¹⁹⁴; MASTERMIND consortium; Pauline Heus¹⁹⁶, Johanna A A G Damen¹⁹⁶, Romin Pajouheshnia¹⁹⁷, Rob J P M Scholten¹⁹⁶, Johannes B Reitsma¹⁹⁶, Gary S Collins¹⁹⁸, Douglas G Altman¹⁹⁸, Karel G M Moons¹⁹⁷, Lotty Hooft¹⁹⁶, Beverley Shields¹⁹⁹, John Dennis¹⁹⁹, Angus Jones¹⁹⁹, William Henley¹⁹⁹, Ewan Pearson²⁰⁰, Andrew Hattersley¹⁹⁹; MASTERMIND consortium; Fueloep Scheibler²⁰¹, Anne Rummer²⁰¹, Sibylle Sturtz²⁰¹, Robert Großelfinger²⁰¹, Katie Banister²⁰², Craig Ramsay²⁰², Augusto Azuara-Blanco²⁰³, Jonathan Cook²⁰⁴, Charles Boachie²⁰⁵, Jennifer Burr²⁰⁶, Manjula Kumarasamy²⁰⁷, Rupert Bourne²⁰⁸, Ijeoma Uchegbu^{209

210}, Simone Borsci^{209

210}, Jennifer Murphy²¹¹, George Hanna^{209

210}, Ijeoma Uchegbu^{212

213}, Alex Carter²¹⁴, Jen Murphy²¹⁵, Melody Ni^{212

213}, Joachim Marti²¹⁴, Julie Eatock²¹⁶, Ijeoma Uchegbu^{217

218}, Julie Robotham^{217

219}, Maria Dudareva²²⁰, Mark Gilchrist²²⁰, Alison Holmes^{217

220}, Ijeoma Uchegbu^{221

222}, Simone Borsci^{221

222}, Phillip Monaghan²²³, Sarah Lord^{224

225}, Andrew StJohn²²⁶, Sverre Sandberg^{227

228

229}, Christa Cobbaert²³⁰, Lieselotte Lennartz²³¹, Wilma Verhagen-Kamerbeek²³², Christoph Ebert²³³, Patrick Bossuyt²³⁴, Andrea Horvath^{235

236}; Test Evaluation Working Group of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine; Kevin Jenniskens²³⁷, Christiana Naaktgeboren²³⁷, Johannes Reitsma²³⁷, Karel Moons²³⁷, Joris de Groot²³⁷, Chris Hyde²³⁸, Jaime Peters²³⁸, Bogdan Grigore²³⁹, Jaime Peters²³⁹, Chris Hyde²³⁹, Chris Hyde²⁴⁰, Obi Ukoumunne²⁴¹, Jaime Peters²⁴⁰, Zhivko Zhelev²⁴⁰, Brooke Levis^{242

243}, Andrea Benedetti^{243

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245}, Alexander W Levis^{242

243}, John P A Ioannidis²⁴⁶, Ian Shrier^{242

243}, Pim Cuijpers²⁴⁷, Simon Gilbody²⁴⁸, Lorie A Kloda²⁴⁹, Dean McMillan²⁴⁸, Scott B Patten²⁵⁰, Russell J Steele^{242

251}, Roy C Ziegelstein²⁵², Charles H Bombardier²⁵³, Flavia de Lima Osório²⁵⁴, Jesse R Fann²⁵⁵, Dwenda Gjerdingen²⁵⁶, Femke Lamers²⁵⁷, Manote Lotrakul²⁵⁸, Sonia R Loureiro²⁵⁴, Bernd Löwe²⁵⁹, Juwita Shaaban²⁶⁰, Lesley Stafford²⁶¹, Henk C P M van Weert²⁶², Mary A Whooley²⁶³, Linda S Williams²⁶⁴, Karin A Wittkampf²⁶⁵, Albert S Yeung²⁶⁶, Brett D Thombs^{242

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267}, Jaime Peters²⁶⁸, Chris Cooper²⁶⁹, James Buchanan²⁷⁰, Tom Nieto²⁷¹, Claire Smith²⁷², Olga Tucker²⁷³, Janine Dretzke²⁷⁴, Andrew Beggs²⁷¹, Nirmala Rai²⁷⁵, Clare Davenport²⁷⁵, Sue Bayliss²⁷⁵, Simon Stevens²⁷⁶, Kym Snell²⁷⁷, Sue Mallet²⁷⁵, Jon Deeks²⁷⁵, Sudha Sundar²⁷⁶, Emma Hall²⁷⁸, Nuria Porta²⁷⁸, David Lorente Estelles²⁷⁸, Johann de Bono²⁷⁸; CTC-STOP protocol development group

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² 2Cochrane Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
³ 3Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ 4EPPI-Centre, Department of Social Science, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ 5Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London, London, UK.
⁶ 6College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
⁷ 7University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol, UK.
⁸ 8Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁹ 9Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ 10School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
¹¹ 11Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹² 12Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd, York, UK.
¹³ 13University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol, UK.
¹⁴ 14Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK.
¹⁵ 15Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁶ 16Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁷ 17Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ 18Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
¹⁹ 19Institute for Biometry and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
²⁰ 20Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK.
²¹ 21Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²² 22Manchester Pharmacy School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
²³ 23Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Str. 26, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
²⁴ 24Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
²⁵ 25Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK.
²⁶ 26Keele University, Keele, UK.
²⁷ 27Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²⁸ 28University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
²⁹ 29Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
³⁰ 30Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³¹ 31Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
³² 32Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³³ 33Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
³⁴ 34Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
³⁵ 35Centre for Medical Imaging, University College London, London, UK.
³⁶ 36Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³⁷ 37Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
³⁸ 38University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³⁹ 39National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Diagnostic Assessment Programme, Manchester, UK.
⁴⁰ 40Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
⁴¹ 41Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴² 42Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴³ 43Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁴⁴ 44KU Leuven Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴⁵ 45KU Leuven iMinds Department Medical Information Technologies, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴⁶ 46University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primarcy Care Health Sciences, Oxford, UK.
⁴⁷ 47KU Leuven Department of Development and Regeneration, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴⁸ 48Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
⁴⁹ 49Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵⁰ 50Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵¹ 51Department of Health Economics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵² 52Department of Breast Surgery, Nuffield House, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵³ 53Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
⁵⁴ 54Department of Breast Surgery, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵⁵ 55Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU), Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵⁶ 56Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵⁷ 57Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵⁸ 58Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁵⁹ 59Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁶⁰ 60Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital & Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁶¹ 61Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁶² 62Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁶³ 63University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁶⁴ 64University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁶⁵ 65Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁶⁶ 66University College London, London, UK.
⁶⁷ 67Bordeaux University Hospital, Public Health Department, Clinical Epidemiology Unit and CIC 1401 EC, Bordeaux, France.
⁶⁸ French National Reference Center for Campylobacter and Helicobacter, Bordeaux, France.
⁶⁹ 69INSERM U1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Bordeaux, France; Univ. Bordeaux, ISPED, Bordeaux, France.
⁷⁰ 70Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁷¹ 71CTU Bern, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁷² 72Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁷³ 73Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁷⁴ 74Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷⁵ 75Departments of Anesthesia & Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michael DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University and the Perioperative Research Group, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada.
⁷⁶ 76KU Leuven Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Leuven, Belgium.
⁷⁷ 77KU Leuven iMinds Department Medical Information Technologies, Leuven, Belgium.
⁷⁸ 78Center for Medical Decision Sciences, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷⁹ 79KU Leuven Department of Development and Regeneration, Leuven, Belgium.
⁸⁰ 80Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
⁸¹ 81Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸² 82Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸³ 83KU Leuven, Department of Development and Regeneration, Leuven, Belgium.
⁸⁴ 84Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
⁸⁵ 85Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham (NC), USA; Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.
⁸⁶ 86Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
⁸⁷ 87Midlands and North West Bowel Cancer Screening Hub, Hospital of St Cross, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Rugby, UK.
⁸⁸ 88Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁸⁹ 89Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁹⁰ 90University Rehabilitation Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁹¹ 91Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁹² 92University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.
⁹³ 93Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
⁹⁴ 94Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁹⁵ 95Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁹⁶ 96School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁹⁷ 97University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK.
⁹⁸ 98School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁹⁹ 99Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
¹⁰⁰ 100NIHR-Diagnostic Evidence Cooperative, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁰¹ 101Department of Anaesthetics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
¹⁰² 102Division of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College, London, UK.
¹⁰³ 103Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁰⁴ 104Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰⁵ 105Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁰⁶ 106Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁰⁷ 107Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰⁸ 108Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁰⁹ 109Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹¹⁰ 110Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹¹¹ 111Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹¹² 112Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
¹¹³ 113NIHR-Diagnostic Evidence Cooperative, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹¹⁴ 114Department of Statistics and OR III, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹¹⁵ 115Department of Statistics and OR I, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹¹⁶ 116Department of Anesthesia and Reanimation, Ramón y Cajal Hospital (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
¹¹⁷ 117Department of Clinical Biostatistics, Ramón y Cajal Hospital (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
¹¹⁸ 118Department of Clinical Biostatistics, Ramón y Cajal Hospital (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
¹¹⁹ 119Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University, London, UK.
¹²⁰ 120Health Economics at Bristol (HEB), School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
¹²¹ 121School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
¹²² 122London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹²³ 123University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
¹²⁴ 124Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹²⁵ 126The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹²⁶ 125NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-Operative Leeds , Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹²⁷ 127Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
¹²⁸ 128School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹²⁹ 129Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹³⁰ 130Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹³¹ 131NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-Operative Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
¹³² 132Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹³³ 133Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹³⁴ 134Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹³⁵ 135The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹³⁶ 136UK NEQAS [Edinburgh]. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK.
¹³⁷ Department of Blood Sciences, Old Medical School, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds, UK.
¹³⁸ 138MRC Centre for Transplantation, DTIMB, King's College London, London, UK.
¹³⁹ 144Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
¹⁴⁰ 139NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King's College London and King's College Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁴¹ 140Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁴² 141King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁴³ 142East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Canterbury, UK.
¹⁴⁴ 143Department of Medicine, Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA.
¹⁴⁵ 145Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, and Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁴⁶ 146Cochrane Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁴⁷ 147Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁴⁸ 148Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, and Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁴⁹ 149Cochrane Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁵⁰ 150Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁵¹ 151Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁵² 152Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.
¹⁵³ 153MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁵⁴ 154Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁵⁵ 155Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, and Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁵⁶ 156Cochrane Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁵⁷ 157Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁵⁸ 158Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁵⁹ 159Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁶⁰ 160Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁶¹ 161Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Faculty and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
¹⁶² 162Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁶³ 163Department of Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁶⁴ 164Department of epidemiology and biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁶⁵ 165Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
¹⁶⁶ 166NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁶⁷ 167NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Newcastle, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁶⁸ 168NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Newcastle, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁶⁹ 169NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁷⁰ 170NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Newcastle, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁷¹ 171NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁷² 172Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁷³ 173Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁷⁴ 174Applied Vision Research Centre, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
¹⁷⁵ 175Centre for Medical Imaging, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁷⁶ 176Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁷⁷ 177Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
¹⁷⁸ 178Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁷⁹ 179Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁸⁰ 180Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁸¹ 181Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁸² 182Centre for Statistics in Medicine & Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁸³ 183NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit & Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹⁸⁴ 184Department of Statistics & Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.
¹⁸⁵ 185Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
¹⁸⁶ 186Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁸⁷ 187Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁸⁸ 188Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁸⁹ 189Department of Medical Oncology, Henri Mondor & Albert Chenevier Teaching Hospital, APHP, Créteil, France.
¹⁹⁰ 190Department of Epidemiology, Hôtel Dieu Teaching Hospital, APHP, Paris, France.
¹⁹¹ 191Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁹² 192Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁹³ 193Health Statistics Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
¹⁹⁴ 194University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
¹⁹⁵ 195University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
¹⁹⁶ 196Cochrane Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁹⁷ 197Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁹⁸ 198Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁹⁹ 199University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
²⁰⁰ 200University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
²⁰¹ 201Institute of Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany.
²⁰² 202Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
²⁰³ 203Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
²⁰⁴ 204Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
²⁰⁵ 205Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
²⁰⁶ 206School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
²⁰⁷ 207Department of Ophthalmology, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK.
²⁰⁸ 208Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
²⁰⁹ 209The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative (DEC) London, London, UK.
²¹⁰ 210Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
²¹¹ 211Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
²¹² 212The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative (DEC), London, UK.
²¹³ 213Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
²¹⁴ 214Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), Imperial College London, London, UK.
²¹⁵ 215Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
²¹⁶ 216Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, London, UK.
²¹⁷ 217The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and antimicrobial resistance at Imperial College, London, UK.
²¹⁸ 218The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative (DEC) London, London, UK.
²¹⁹ 219Public Health England, England, UK.
²²⁰ 220Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
²²¹ 221The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative (DEC) London, London, UK.
²²² 222Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
²²³ 223Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The Christie Pathology Partnership, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
²²⁴ 224School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Australia.
²²⁵ 225National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
²²⁶ ARC Consulting, Perth, Australia.
²²⁷ 227The Norwegian Quality Improvement of Primary Care Laboratories (NOKLUS), Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
²²⁸ 228Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
²²⁹ 229Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
²³⁰ 230Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
²³¹ Abbott Diagnostics, Wiesbaden, Germany.
²³² Medical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Diagnostics International Ltd, Rotkreuz, Switzerland.
²³³ 233Medical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany.
²³⁴ 234Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²³⁵ 235SEALS Department of Clinical Chemistry and Endocrinology, Prince of Wales Hospital and School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
²³⁶ 236Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
²³⁷ 237Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands.
²³⁸ 238Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
²³⁹ 239Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
²⁴⁰ 240Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
²⁴¹ 241Statistics Group, NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC), University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
²⁴² 242Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁴³ 243Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁴⁴ 244Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁴⁵ 245Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁴⁶ 246Department of Medicine, Department of Health Research and Policy, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California USA.
²⁴⁷ 247Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit (VU) University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁴⁸ 248Hull York Medical School and the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York UK.
²⁴⁹ 249Libraries, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁵⁰ 250Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Canada.
²⁵¹ 251Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁵² 252Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland USA.
²⁵³ 253Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA.
²⁵⁴ 254Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
²⁵⁵ 255Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA.
²⁵⁶ 256Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
²⁵⁷ 257Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁵⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
²⁵⁹ 259Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany.
²⁶⁰ 260Department of Family Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
²⁶¹ 261Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria Australia.
²⁶² 262Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁶³ 263Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California USA.
²⁶⁴ 264Richard L Roudebush Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Health Services Research and Development, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana USA.
²⁶⁵ 265Department of Psychiatry and Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁶⁶ 266Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
²⁶⁷ 267Departments of Psychiatry, Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Psychology, and School of Nursing, McGill University, Montréal, Québec Canada.
²⁶⁸ 268Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
²⁶⁹ 269PenTAG, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
²⁷⁰ 270Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
²⁷¹ 271Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²⁷² 272Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²⁷³ Department of Surgery, Heart of England Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
²⁷⁴ 274Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²⁷⁵ 275Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²⁷⁶ 276University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
²⁷⁷ 277Keele University, Keele, UK.
²⁷⁸ 278The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.

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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s41512-016-0001-y.].

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