About the Authors

Annie LeBlanc

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Amy T. Wang

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America

Kirk Wyatt

Affiliations Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Megan E. Branda

Affiliations Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Nilay D. Shah

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Holly Van Houten

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Laurie Pencille

Affiliation Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Robert Wermers

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Victor M. Montori

Montori.victor@mayo.edu

Affiliations Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VMM NDS MEB RW. Analyzed the data: MEB HVH. Wrote the paper: AL KW ATW NDS VMM MEB LP HVH RW.