About the Authors

Mingfei Li

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

Affiliations Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ying Wang

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

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ndindam Ndiwane

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle B. Orner

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Natalia Palacios

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America, Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brant Mittler

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Dan Berlowitz

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lewis E. Kazis

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

Affiliations Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Weiming Xia

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

weiming.xia@va.gov, wxia@bu.edu

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.