About the Authors

Nicholas J. Leeper

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas J. Leeper, Anna Bauer-Mehren

Affiliation Divisions of Vascular Surgery and Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Anna Bauer-Mehren

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas J. Leeper, Anna Bauer-Mehren

anna.bauermehren@stanford.edu (ABM); nigam@stanford.edu (NHS)

Affiliation Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Srinivasan V. Iyer

Affiliation Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Paea LePendu

Affiliation Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Cliff Olson

Affiliation Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Nigam H. Shah

anna.bauermehren@stanford.edu (ABM); nigam@stanford.edu (NHS)

Affiliation Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

ABM, PLP, SVI and NHS are inventors on technology disclosures and/or patents, owned by Stanford University, that enable the use of clinical text analysis.This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABM NJL NHS. Performed the experiments: ABM. Analyzed the data: ABM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SVI PLP CO. Wrote the paper: ABM NJL NHS.