About the Authors

Jennifer L. Matas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

jmatas@nmqf.org

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Social Research, National Minority Quality Forum, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Kira Raskina

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Real Word Evidence, Opella Healthcare, Barcelona, Spain

Sabine Tong

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

Affiliation Real World Evidence, Opella Healthcare, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Derrick Forney

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Social Research, National Minority Quality Forum, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Bruno Scarpellini

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Real World Evidence, Opella Healthcare, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Mario Cruz-Rivera

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

Affiliation Global Switch Medical Science, Opella Healthcare, Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America

Gary Puckrein

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Offices of the President, National Minority Quality Forum, Washington District of Columbia, United States of America

Liou Xu

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Social Research, National Minority Quality Forum, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and declare the following competing interests: This research study was funded by Opella through grant award 22-SAN-INFLU (Matas, JL; Forney, D; Xu,L; Puckrein, G), and some authors received salary support as employees of Opella (Tong, S.; Scarpellini, B; Raskina, K, Cruz-Rivera, M). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. However, individual-level data cannot be shared publicly due to CMS and Optum regulations that require data use and licensing agreements for access. Researchers who meet the criteria for access to confidential data may obtain the data from CMS/Optum. All other relevant aggregated data are within the paper and its supporting information files. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products associated with this research to declare.