About the Authors

Tim K. Mackey

tmackey@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, United States of America, Joint Doctoral Program on Global Health, University of California San Diego-San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Bryan A. Liang

Affiliations Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, United States of America, San Diego Center for Patient Safety, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TKM BAL. Performed the experiments: TKM BAL. Analyzed the data: TKM BAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TKM BAL. Wrote the paper: TKM BAL. Jointly conceived the study: TKM BAL. Jointly edited the manuscript: TKM BAL. Supervised its legal and policy analysis: BAL.