About the Authors

David D. Limbrick

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

limbrickd@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Diego M. Morales

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Chevis N. Shannon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

John C. Wellons

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Abhaya V. Kulkarni

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jessica S. Alvey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Data Coordinating Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Ron W. Reeder

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Data Coordinating Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Volker Freimann

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

Affiliation Data Coordinating Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Richard Holubkov

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

Affiliation Data Coordinating Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Jay K. Riva-Cambrin

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

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

William E. Whitehead

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Curtis J. Rozzelle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama–Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Mandeep Tamber

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

W. Jerry Oakes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama–Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

James M. Drake

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ian F. Pollack

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Robert P. Naftel

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

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Terrie E. Inder

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

John R. Kestle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

for the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network

Membership of the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following potential competing interests: DDL has received support for unrelated research efforts from Microbot Medical, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.