Contributors
Adam Ceney: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Stephanie Tolond: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Project administration
Andrzej Glowinski: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Methodology
Ben Marks: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Methodology
Simon Swift:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2812-4262
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Methodology
Tom Palser: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Fernando A. Wilson: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
15
July
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 7
Electronic Location Identifier: e0254088
Affiliations
[1
]
Methods Analytics Ltd, Sheffield, United Kingdom
[2
]
University of Exeter Business School (INDEX), Exeter, United Kingdom
[3
]
Department of Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United
Kingdom
[4
]
SAPPHIRE, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United
Kingdom
University of Utah, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at
http://www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/. (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: Doctorlink (funder)
engaged Methods Analytics (a commercial entity) to undertake this research but were
not involved in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,
or preparation of the manuscript. Employees of Doctorlink had sight of draft manuscripts
but all decisions were made independently by the authorship team. This does not alter
our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-20-21627
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254088
PMC ID: 8282353
PubMed ID: 34265845
SO-VID: 5449d702-aee3-4dc5-a7d0-ba790bafd93a
Copyright © © 2021 Ceney et al
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.
History
Date
received
: 13
July
2020
Date
accepted
: 13
June
2021
Page count
Figures: 7,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 16
Funding
This study was fully funded as an external review of the sector by Doctorlink Ltd.
The funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors [SS, AC, AG, BM and
TP], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and
analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles
of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
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