About the Authors

Janet Bouttell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Janet.Bouttell@glasgow.ac.uk (JB); jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk (JT)

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jeremy Teoh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Janet.Bouttell@glasgow.ac.uk (JB); jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk (JT)

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Peter K. Chiu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Kevin S. Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chi-Fai Ng

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Robert Heggie

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Neil Hawkins

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Beckman Coulter Inc., the manufacturer of the Prostate Health Index provided instruments and reagents for the clinical trial reported elsewhere (see reference 2) which provides the context for this economic evaluation. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.