Footnotes

• Contributors JT is the guarantor of the article, directed the study and wrote the first draft. CC provided the evaluation dataset and conducted the primary evaluation. AK performed the comparator evaluation. HH provided the health economic analytic model. DT assisted in the preparation of the manuscript. The final version is approved by all the authors.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.