1Birmingham Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
2Atlanta Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, UAB Center for Aging, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Urogynecology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
5Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Correspondence:, Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, VA Medical Center, GRECC/11G, 700 19th St S., Birmingham, Alabama 35233, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 01 September 2015; accepted 24 November 2015
Guarantor of the article: Alayne D. Markland, DO, MSc.
Specific author contributions: Conception, initiation, and writing: Alayne D. Markland; conception, writing and editing of manuscript: Gena C. Dunivan, Camille P. Vaughan and Rebecca G. Rogers. Rebecca G. Rogers receives royalties from UptoDate and McGraw Hill for educational writings; she is the DSMB chair for the TRANSFORM trial sponsored by American Medical Systems. Gena C. Dunivan receives research support from Pelvalon.
Financial support: This study was supported in part from a Veterans Health Administration Career Development Award (CDA-2) to Alayne D. Markland and Camille P. Vaughan (1 IK2 RX000747-01).
Potential competing interests: None.
