About the Authors

Jessica P. Ridgway

Jessica.Ridgway@uchospitals.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lance R. Peterson

Affiliations Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eric C. Brown

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Research Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Hongyan Du

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Research Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Courtney Hebert

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Richard B. Thomson Jr

Affiliations Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Karen L. Kaul

Affiliations Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ari Robicsek

Affiliations Department of Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Clinical Analytics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Peterson reports receiving research grants from BD Diagnostics, Cepheid, MicroPhage, Nanogen, Nanosphere, NIAID, Roche, Synetzza, 3M, AHRQ, Wyeth (Pfizer), and consulting for BD Diagnostics, Cepheid, Nanosphere, Wyeth (Pfizer), and Roche. Dr. Thomson reports receiving research grants from GlaxoSmithKline and Nanosphere, consulting for Nanosphere and Copan, receiving lecture honoraria from BD GeneOhm and Nanosphere, and receiving a project grant from Jones Group. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. 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: JR AR. Performed the experiments: JR AR CH. Analyzed the data: JR AR CH HD EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK LP RT HD EB. Wrote the paper: JR AR. Interpretation of data: JR AR CH KK LP RT. Critical revision of manuscript: JR AR CH KK LP RT.