About the Authors

Ramona Shayegani

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona Shayegani, Kangwon Song, Mary Jo Pugh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Kangwon Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona Shayegani, Kangwon Song, Mary Jo Pugh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Megan E. Amuan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carlos A. Jaramillo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Blessen C. Eapen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Mary Jo Pugh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona Shayegani, Kangwon Song, Mary Jo Pugh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pughm@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, University of Utah Health, Division of Epidemiology, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.