About the Authors

Deborah Korenstein

deborah.korenstein@mssm.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Salomeh Keyhani

Affiliations Department of Health Evidence and Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, HSR&D Research Enhancement Award Program and Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ali Mendelson

Affiliation Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph S. Ross

Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK SK JSR. Performed the experiments: DK SK JSR. Analyzed the data: JSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK SK AM JSR. Wrote the paper: DK SK AM JSR.