About the Authors

Satya Krishna Ramachandran

skrama@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aleda Thompson

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jaideep J. Pandit

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Scott Devine

Affiliation Center for Observational & Real-world Evidence: US Evidence & Value Strategies, Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, United States of America

Amy M. Shanks

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SKR. Data curation: AT AS SKR. Formal analysis: AS. Funding acquisition: SKR SD. Investigation: SKR AS AT JP. Methodology: SKR AS AT JP. Project administration: SKR AS. Resources: SKR AS SD. Software: SKR SD AS. Supervision: SKR AS. Visualization: SKR AT AS. Writing – original draft: SKR AT AS JP. Writing – review & editing: SKR AT AS JP.