*Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
†Division of Cardiology, Richard and Susan Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
‡Missouri Hospital Association, Jefferson City
§Center for Health Economics and Policy, Institute for Public Health at Washington University, St Louis, MO
Supported by NIH #5T35HL007815. The funders played no role in the design or execution of the study, nor in the decision to submit it for publication.
K.E.J.M. receives research support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL143421), National Institute on Aging (R01AG060935), and Commonwealth Fund, and previously did contract work for the US Department of Health and Human Services. G.H. is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number T32HL007081. R.K.W. receives research support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K23HL148525-1). The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
Correspondence to: Karen E. Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid, St Louis, MO 63110. E-mail: [email protected].
