About the Authors
- Mitali Stevens
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Global Health Economics & Reimbursement, Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Apeksha V. Shenoy
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sibyl H. Munson
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Halit O. Yapici
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation
Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Boye L. A. Gricar
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Xuan Zhang
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Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation
Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Andrew D. Shaw
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: ashaw2@ualberta.ca
Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Competing Interests
This work was supported financially by Edwards Lifesciences. MS is an employee of Edwards Lifesciences. ADS works as a consultant for Edwards Lifesciences. SHM works as a consultant and AVS, BLAG, XZ, and HOY as employees, for Boston Strategic Partners, Inc., who received funds from Edwards Lifesciences to perform the research. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The data that support the findings of this study are available as the Cerner Health Facts® database from the Cerner Corporation, which is available to the public through licensure with Cerner Corporation.