About the Authors

Michael E. Matheny

michael@matheny.info

Affiliations Geriatrics Research Education & Clinical Center (GRECC), Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS), Veteran's Health Administration, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Josh F. Peterson

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Svetlana K. Eden

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Adriana M. Hung

Affiliations Geriatrics Research Education & Clinical Center (GRECC), Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS), Veteran's Health Administration, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Theodore Speroff

Affiliations Geriatrics Research Education & Clinical Center (GRECC), Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS), Veteran's Health Administration, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Khaled Abdel-Kader

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Sharidan K. Parr

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

T. Alp Ikizler

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Edward D. Siew

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEM JFP TS TAI EDS. Performed the experiments: MEM EDS. Analyzed the data: MEM SKE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEM JFP AMH TS KA EDS SKP. Wrote the paper: MEM JFP SKE AMH TS KA TAI EDS SKP.