Evidence of a positive association between malpractice climate and thyroid cancer incidence in the United States

• Brandon Labarge ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon Labarge, Vonn Walter, Joshua I. Warrick

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Vonn Walter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon Labarge, Vonn Walter, Joshua I. Warrick

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

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Eugene J. Lengerich ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Henry Crist ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Dipti Karamchandani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Nicole Williams ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• David Goldenberg ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery–Division of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Darrin V. Bann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery–Division of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Joshua I. Warrick

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon Labarge, Vonn Walter, Joshua I. Warrick

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jwarrick@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

  Affiliations Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, PA, United States of America, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6149-1331

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