About the Authors

T. Carter Chiasson

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Braden J. Manns

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Henry Thomas Stelfox

tom.stelfox@albertahealthservices.ca

Affiliation Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: TCC BM HTS. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: TCC BM HTS. Designed the experiments/the study: BM HTS. Analyzed the data: TCC BM HTS. Collected data/did experiments for the study: TCC BM HTS. Wrote the first draft of the paper: TCC HTS. Contributed to the writing of the paper: TCC BM HTS. Construction and validation of all the computer-generated models used: TCC. Supervised TCC in the performance of the decision analysis and economic evaluation: BM.