About the Authors

Rene Soria-Saucedo

Affiliation The Center for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Practices (CAPP), Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Peng Xu

Affiliation The Center for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Practices (CAPP), Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Jack Newsom

Affiliation CenseoHealth, Dallas, United States of America

Howard Cabral

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Lewis E. Kazis

lek@bu.edu

Affiliation The Center for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Practices (CAPP), Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LK PX JN. Performed the experiments: PX HC LK JN. Analyzed the data: RSS LK JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC PX RSS. Wrote the paper: PX HC RSS JN LK.