About the Authors

Athanasios Tsalatsanis

Affiliations Comparative Effectiveness Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Iztok Hozo

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Indiana University of Northwest, Gary, IN, United States of America

Ambuj Kumar

Affiliations Comparative Effectiveness Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Benjamin Djulbegovic

bdjulbeg@heatlh.usf.edu

Affiliations Comparative Effectiveness Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America, Departments of Hematology and Health Outcomes and Behavior, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT IH BD. Performed the experiments: AT IH BD. Analyzed the data: AT IH BD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT IH AK BD. Wrote the paper: AT IH BD.