*Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
†Program For Global Surgery And Social Change, Harvard Medical School
‡Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
§Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Department Of Otolaryngology & Office of Global Surgery
∥Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
¶Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
M.G.S. received speaking fees from Ethicon in 2014 for work unrelated to this project. B.D.S. and T.C.T. serve part-time as advisors to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health & Human Services. This work does not represent the official views of the US Department of Health and Human Services. A.H.H. is the PI of a contract (AD-1306-03980) with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute entitled “Patient-Centered Approaches to Collect Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity in the ED” and a Harvard Surgery Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC) Program Grant entitled “Mitigating Disparities Through Enhancing Surgeons’ Ability To Provide Culturally Relevant Care.” A.H.H. is also the cofounder and an equity holder in Patient Doctor Technologies Inc., which owns and operates the website http://www.doctella.com. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
Reprints: John W. Scott, MD, MPH, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, One Brigham Circle, 1620 Tremont Street, Suite 4-020, Boston, MA 02120. E-mail: [email protected].
