About the Authors

Lisa Langsetmo

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

langs005@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Care Delivery & Outcomes Research, VA Healthcare System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

John T. Schousboe

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

Affiliations HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America, Divison of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Allyson M. Kats

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Brent C. Taylor

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Care Delivery & Outcomes Research, VA Healthcare System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Cynthia M. Boyd

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kerry M. Sheets

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Kristine Ensrud

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Care Delivery & Outcomes Research, VA Healthcare System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

Cynthia Boyd co-authors a chapter for UptoDate on multimorbidity. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Other authors have no competing interests.