About the Authors
- Laura Y. Park-Wyllie
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* E-mail: parkwylliel@smh.toronto.on.ca
Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Muhammad M. Mamdani
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Affiliations Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ping Li
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sudeep S. Gill
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Andreas Laupacis
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Affiliations Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- David N. Juurlink
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
MMM was employed at Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals from January 2006 to April 2007.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: LPW MMM PL SSG AL DNJ. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: LPW MMM PL SSG AL DNJ. Designed the experiments/the study: LPW MMM SSG AL DNJ. Analyzed the data: LPW PL SSG. Wrote the first draft of the paper: LPW. Contributed to the writing of the paper: LPW MMM PL SSG AL DNJ. Helped to design the study, helped to analyze/interpret the data, and contributed to critical revisions of the manuscript: SSG. Supervised LYPW: DNJ.