∗Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
†Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
‡Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
§Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
¶lnstitute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
||Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
∗∗Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
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JPO and ABH. contributed equally as co-senior authors.
This study was supported by a National institutes of Health Research Training in Alimentary Tract Surgery grant (grant T32 DK007754–18 [NP]), an Ariadne Labs Spark Grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family foundation (NP, IS, JPO, ABH), and the National institutes of Health/National institute of Mental Health (grant 1DP2MH103909 [JPO]).
NP reports a contract agreement with Aptima, a human-centered engineering and performance assessment contractor of the DARPA/Department of Defense. JPO receives additional research funding from Harvard University, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, and Mindstrong Health (unrestricted gift for methods development in digital phenotyping). For the remaining authors report no conflicts of interest.
Description of author contributions
This original investigation involved many collaborators and contributors in regard to study conception and design, data acquisition, complex methodology for data acquisition, data analyses and interpretation, drafting and critical revision of the scientific report, and final approval for submission to Annals of Surgery. The following list of authors contributed substantially to this original investigation and meet the criteria for authorship in accordance with the Annals of Surgery guidelines:
Nikhil Panda, Ian Solsky, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Alex Haynes: study conception and design, data acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data, drafting of the manuscript, critical revision of the manuscript, final approval for submission to Annals of Surgery;
Eesha Desai, Emily Huang, Stuart Lipsitz: acquisition of data, data analysis and interpretation of the data, drafting of the manuscript, critical revision of the manuscript, final approval for submission to Annals of Surgery;
Christy Cauley, Evan Benjamin, Carrie Lubitz: analysis and interpretation of data, critical revision of the manuscript, final approval for submission to Annals of Surgery.
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