About the Authors

Joyce H. S. You

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Pharmacoeconomics Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Eva S. K. Chan

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Pharmacoeconomics Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Maggie Y. K. Leung

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Pharmacoeconomics Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Margaret Ip

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Nelson L. S. Lee

leelsn@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

Dr. Lee has previously received grant support from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. on principal-investigator initiated clinical influenza research, paid to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, unrelated to the study of cost-effectiveness of oseltamivir treatment. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. has no role in the initiation, original conception, design and execution of this study, nor has any influence on the results. All other authors: no conflict of interest declared. This does not affect the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY EC ML MI NL. Performed the experiments: JY EC ML NL. Analyzed the data: JY EC ML NL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY EC ML MI NL. Wrote the paper: JY EC ML MI NL.