About the Authors

Lauren E. Cipriano

Lauren.Cipriano@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gregory S. Zaric

Affiliation Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Mark Holodniy

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Eran Bendavid

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Division of General Medicine Disciplines, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Douglas K. Owens

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Margaret L. Brandeau

Affiliation Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LEC GSZ DKO MLB. Performed the experiments: LEC. Analyzed the data: LEC GSZ MH EB DKO MLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LEC. Wrote the paper: LEC GSZ MLB. Model development: LEC. Editing and revising the manuscript: GSZ MH EB DKO MLB. Approved the final manuscript: LEC GSZ MH EB DKO MLB.