About the Authors

Marie-Anne Durand

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

marie-anne.durand@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States of America, UMR 1027, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Renata W. Yen

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

Affiliation The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States of America

James O’Malley

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States of America

Glyn Elwyn

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States of America

Julien Mancini

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aix-Marseille Univ, APHM, INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, “Cancer, Biomedicine & Society” Group, Hop Timone, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

M-A D receives consulting income from EBSCO Health and may receive royalties in the future. She is also a consultant for ACCESS Community Health Network. GE has edited and published books that provide royalties on sales by the publishers: the books include Shared Decision Making (Oxford University Press) and Groups (Radcliffe Press). He has provided consultancy on patient support tools for organizations, the most recent being Emmi Solutions, National Quality Forum, and Washington State Health Department. He is the director of &think LLC, which owns the registered trademark for Option Grids patient decision aids. He currently provides consultancy to Access Community Health Network, and EBSCO Health Option GridsTM patient decision aids. He owns copyright in measures of shared decision making and care integration: collaboRATE, integRATE, consideRATE, and Observer OPTION-5 and Observer OPTION-12. These measures are freely available for use. No other competing interests declared. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.