About the Authors

Ninh T. Nguyen

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

ninhn@uci.edu

Affiliation From the Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, United States of America

Justine Chinn

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

Affiliation From the Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, United States of America

Morgan De Ferrante

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation From Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California, United States of America

Katharine A. Kirby

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation From the Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, United States of America

Samuel F. Hohmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation From Vizient, Centers for Advanced Analytics and Informatics and Department of Health Systems Management Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alpesh Amin

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation From the Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Alpesh Amin reported serving as PI or co-I of clinical trials sponsored by NIH/NIAID, NeuroRx Pharma, Pulmotect, Blade Therpeutics, Novartis, Takeda, Humanigen, Eli Lilly, PTC Therapeutics, OctaPharma, Fulcrum Therapeutics, Alexion. He has served as speaker and/or consultant for BMS, Pfizer, BI, Portola, Sunovion, Mylan, Salix, Alexion, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Nabriva, Paratek, Bayer, Tetraphase, Achogen LaJolla, Millenium, HeartRite, Aseptiscope, Sprightly. Ninh Nguyen reported serving as a speaker for Olympus and Endogastric Solutions. Morgan De Ferrante is employed by Edwards Lifesciences. The information contained in this article was based on the clinical database provided by Vizient. Vizient provided support in the form of salaries for Sam Hohmann, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.