About the Authors

Beate Sander

bsander@uhnres.utoronto.ca

Affiliations Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Division of Clinical Decision-Making and Health Care Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative, Toronto, Canada

Jeffrey C. Kwong

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Chris T. Bauch

Affiliations Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative, Toronto, Canada, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Andreas Maetzel

Affiliations Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Amgen (Europe) GmbH, Zug, Switzerland

Allison McGeer

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

Janet M. Raboud

Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

Murray Krahn

Affiliations Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Division of Clinical Decision-Making and Health Care Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative, Toronto, Canada, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

BS has served as consultant to F. Hoffmann La-Roche for economic evaluations of Tamiflu (unrestricted funding). BS has received travel grants and honoraria for speaking at meetings on pandemic influenza mitigation strategies from F. Hoffmann La-Roche.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: BS JCK CTB AM AM JMR MDK. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: BS JCK CTB AM AM JMR MDK. Designed the experiments/the study: BS CTB AM AM JMR MDK. Analyzed the data: BS. Collected data/did experiments for the study: BS JCK. Wrote the first draft of the paper: BS. Contributed to the writing of the paper: JCK CTB AM AM JMR MDK.