About the Authors

Mitali Stevens

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Economics & Reimbursement, Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California, United States of America

Apeksha V. Shenoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.