About the Authors

George N. Ioannou

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

georgei@medicine.washington.edu

Affiliations Divisions of Gastroenterology, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Research and Development, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jacqueline M. Ferguson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Ann M. O’Hare

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

Affiliation Nephrology, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Amy S. B. Bohnert

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Lisa I. Backus

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs, Population Health, Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Edward J. Boyko

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas F. Osborne

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, and Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Matthew L. Maciejewski

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT), Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

C. Barrett Bowling

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Durham Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Durham, NC and Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Denise M. Hynes

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Innovation to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care, VA Portland Healthcare System, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Health Management and Policy, School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Health Data and Informatics Program, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Theodore J. Iwashyna

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Melody Saysana

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Pamela Green

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Research and Development, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kristin Berry

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

Affiliation Research and Development, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DH reported that she is an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The remaining authors have declared no competing interests exist.