About the Authors

Nick Bansback

nick.bansback@ubc.ca

Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Health Economics and Decision Sciences, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Aki Tsuchiya

Affiliations Health Economics and Decision Sciences, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

John Brazier

Affiliation Health Economics and Decision Sciences, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Aslam Anis

Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB JB AT AA. Performed the experiments: NB JB AT AA. Analyzed the data: NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB JB AT AA. Wrote the paper: NB JB AT AA.