About the Authors

Dan Yamin

dan.yamin@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

Arieh Gavious

Affiliations Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, Faculty of Business Administration, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel

Eyal Solnik

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

Nadav Davidovitch

Affiliation Department of Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

Ran D. Balicer

Affiliation Clalit Research Institute, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel

Alison P. Galvani

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joseph S. Pliskin

Affiliations Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, Department of Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard 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: DY AG ES. Performed the experiments: DY ES. Analyzed the data: DY ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDB ND JSP APG AG. Wrote the paper: DY APG JSP AG.