1. Lisa I. Iezzoni () is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, based at the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.
2. Sowmya R. Rao is a statistician in the Biostatistics Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Boston University School of Public Health.
3. Julie Ressalam is a senior research coordinator in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, in Aurora, Colorado.
4. Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic is the director of survey operations and a research fellow in the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in Boston, Massachusetts.
5. Nicole D. Agaronnik is a medical student at Harvard Medical School. When this work was performed, she was a research assistant in the Mongan Institute Health Policy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital.
6. Karen Donelan is the Stuart H. Altman Chair in U.S. Health Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. At the time this work was performed, she was a senior scientist at the Health Policy Research Center at the Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
7. Tara Lagu is an associate professor in the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and the Department of Medicine at Baystate Health and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
8. Eric G. Campbell is a professor and director of research in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado.