About the Authors

Rochelle P. Walensky

rwalensky@partners.org

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bethany L. Morris

Affiliation Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

William M. Reichmann

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

A. David Paltiel

Affiliation Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Christian Arbelaez

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurel Donnell-Fink

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey N. Katz

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elena Losina

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPW BLM WMR ADP CA LDF JNK EL. Performed the experiments: RPW BLM WMR ADP CA LDF JNK EL. Analyzed the data: RPW BLM WMR ADP CA LDF JNK EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RPW BLM WMR ADP CA LDF JNK EL. Wrote the paper: RPW BLM WMR ADP CA LDF JNK EL.