About the Authors

Stacie B. Dusetzina

Dusetzina@unc.edu

Affiliations Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christina D. Mack

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Til Stürmer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Stacie B. Dusetzina: Received funding through a Ruth L. Kirschstein-National Service Research Award Post-Doctoral Traineeship sponsored by NIMH and Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, Grant No. T32MH019733-17. The funding sources had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript for publication. Dr. Dusetzina has no conflicts of interest. Christina D. Mack: Fellowship, Merck; NIH grant R01 AG023178; Consultant to Roche and AHRQ through Outcome, A Quintiles Company. No perceived conflicts of interest. Til Stürmer: R01 AG023178, R01 AG018833 from the National Institute on Aging at the NIH; UNC-DEcIDE center from AHRQ; salary support from Center for Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, UNC, and unrestricted research and other grants from pharmaceutical companies (GSK, Merck, Sanofi) to UNC. 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: SBD CDM TS. Analyzed the data: SBD CDM TS. Wrote the paper: SBD CDM TS.