About the Authors

Colleen A. McHorney

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Patient Centered Research, Evidera, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Sonal G. Mansukhani

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Patient Centered Research, Evidera, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Milena Anatchkova

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

milena.anatchkova@evidera.com

Affiliation Patient Centered Research, Evidera, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Natalie Taylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Patient Centered Research, Evidera, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Heidi S. Wirtz

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

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

Affiliation Global Health Economics, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States of America

Siddique Abbasi

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

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

Affiliation Global Health Economics, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States of America

Lynwood Battle

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Patient Author from Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Nihar R. Desai

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

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

Affiliation Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Gary Globe

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen A. McHorney, Sonal G. Mansukhani, Milena Anatchkova, Natalie Taylor, Heidi S. Wirtz, Siddique Abbasi, Lynwood Battle, Nihar R. Desai, Gary Globe

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

Affiliation Global Health Economics, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the author’s of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GG, HSW, and SA are paid employees of Amgen Inc. CAM, MA, SGM, and NT are paid employees of Evidera. NRD has received research grants unrelated to this work and consultancy support from Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cytokinetics, Relypsa, Novartis, and SC Pharmaceuticals unrelated to this work. 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.