About the Authors

Ilan Shahin

ilan.shahin@wchospital.ca

The work done by these first authors is equivalent.

Affiliation Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Raman Sohal

The work done by these first authors is equivalent.

Affiliations Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

John Ginther

Affiliation Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation (T-HOPE), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Leigh Hayden

Affiliation Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

John A. MacDonald

Affiliation MIT Media Lab and Sloan School of Management, Boston, MA, United States of America

Kathryn Mossman

Affiliation Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Himanshu Parikh

Affiliation Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Anita McGahan

Affiliation Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Will Mitchell

Affiliation Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Onil Bhattacharyya

Affiliations Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Family Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The authors as a collective are part of a working group that is under paid contract to provide input on the development of the CHMI database. This does not alter the authors′ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS RS JG LH JM KM HP AM WM OB. Performed the experiments: IS RS WM OB. Analyzed the data: IS RS JM WM OB. Wrote the paper: IS RS WM OB. Critically reviewed the manuscript: JG LH JM KM HP AM.