1. David I. Auerbach is an external adjunct faculty member at the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, College of Nursing, Montana State University, in Bozeman, Montana, and is senior director for research and cost trends at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, in Boston, Massachusetts.
2. Douglas E. Levy is an associate professor in the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.
3. Peter Maramaldi is a professor in the School of Social Work, Simmons University, in Boston.
4. Robert S. Dittus is the Albert and Bernard Werthan Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University; chief innovation officer and senior vice president for the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network; and director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, in Nashville, Tennessee.
5. Joanne Spetz is director and Brenda and Jeffrey L. Kang Presidential Chair in Healthcare Finance at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco, in San Francisco, California.
6. Peter I. Buerhaus is a professor of nursing and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, both in the College of Nursing, Montana State University.
7. 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, in Boston.