1. Niteesh K. Choudhry ( ) is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.
2. Michael A. Fisher is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
3. Benjamin F. Smith was a research assistant in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the time this work was done. He is now a technician at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital, in Bozeman, Montana.
4. Gregory Brill is a statistical programmer in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
5. Charmaine Girdish is director of prospective analytics, CVS Caremark, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
6. Olga S. Matlin is senior director of analytic development, CVS Caremark.
7. Troyen A. Brennan is executive vice president and chief medical officer at CVS Caremark.
8. Jerry Avorn is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
9. William H. Shrank was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the time this work was done. He is now chief scientific officer at CVS Caremark.