About the Authors

Rishi J. Desai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rdesai@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ameet Sarpatwari

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sara Dejene

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nazleen F. Khan

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joyce Lii

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James R. Rogers

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sarah K. Dutcher

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Saeid Raofi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Justin Bohn

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John G. Connolly

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael A. Fischer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron S. Kesselheim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joshua J. Gagne

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JJG is or was Principal Investigator of research grants from Eli Lilly and Company and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a consultant to Aetion, Inc. and Optum, Inc., all for unrelated work. RJD is Principal Investigator of a research grant from Merck to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital for unrelated work. JR is a consultant to Aetion Inc. for unrelated work. ASK and AS’s work is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, as well as the Engelberg Foundation and Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science. ASK is an Academic Editor on PLOS Medicine’s editorial board. SKD is an employee of the Food and Drug Administration, which funded the research grant on which this manuscript is based.