About the Authors

Yuxian Du

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

Affiliations Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcome Research (HICOR), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Data Generation and Observational Studies, Bayer Healthcare U.S. LLC, Whippany, New Jersey, United States of America, School of Health Care Management, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Yan Du

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Nengliang Yao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ayao@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Health Care Management, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policies and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: "YD works as a contractor for Bayer Healthcare U.S. LLC but does not receive any income directly from Bayer. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.