About the Authors

Elizabeth A. Scoville

Affiliation Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Paula Ponce de Leon Lovaton

Affiliation Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Nilay D. Shah

Affiliations Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Laurie J. Pencille

Affiliation Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Victor M. Montori

kerunit@mayo.edu

Affiliations Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAS PPLL NDS VMM. Performed the experiments: EAS PPLL LJP. Analyzed the data: EAS NDS VMM. Wrote the paper: EAS PPLL NDS LJP VMM.