About the Authors

Makoto M. Jones

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Makoto.jones@va.gov

Affiliations VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kevin L. Winthrop

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Scott D. Nelson

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Scott L. Duvall

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Olga V. Patterson

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kevin E. Nechodom

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kimberly E. Findley

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Occupational Health and Infection Control, Patient Care Services (Public Health), Veterans Health Administration, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Lewis J. Radonovich Jr.

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Formerly with the National Center for Occupational Health and Infection Control, Patient Care Services (Public Health), Veterans Health Administration, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Matthew H. Samore

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kevin P. Fennelly

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

Affiliations Formerly with the National Center for Occupational Health and Infection Control, Patient Care Services (Public Health), Veterans Health Administration, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Pulmonary Clinical Medicine Section, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: some of the authors had operational roles in Veterans Affairs and were part of the funding agency. We confirm that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.