About the Authors

Bo Wang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David M. Studdert

Affiliation Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research Stanford Medical School & Stanford Law School, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ameet Sarpatwari

Affiliation Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica M. Franklin

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joan Landon

Affiliation Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron S. Kesselheim

akesselheim@partners.org

Affiliation Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BW AS AK. Data curation: JL. Investigation: BW AS JF JL AK. Methodology: BW AS JL AK. Project administration: BW AK. Software: JL. Supervision: BW AK. Validation: BW. Visualization: BW AK. Writing – original draft: BW AK. Writing – review & editing: BW DS AS JF AK.