About the Authors

Baligh R. Yehia

byehia@upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Alisa J. Stephens-Shields

Affiliation Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

John A. Fleishman

Affiliation Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Stephen A. Berry

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Allison L. Agwu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Joshua P. Metlay

Affiliation General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Richard D. Moore

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

W. Christopher Mathews

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Ank Nijhawan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Richard Rutstein

Affiliation Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Aditya H. Gaur

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude’s Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America

Kelly A. Gebo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

HIV Research Network

Membership of the HIV Research Network is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: BRY received investigator-initiated research support (to the University of Pennsylvania) and consulting fees from Gilead Sciences. SAB has been a consultant for Bristol-Myers Squibb. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BRY AJS JAF SAB ALA JPM KAG. Analyzed the data: BRY AJS JAF KAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAB ALA RDM WCM AN RR AHG KAG. Wrote the paper: BRY AJS JAF SAB ALA JPM RDM WCM AN RR AHG KAG.