About the Authors

Douglas G. Manuel

dmanuel@ohri.ca

Affiliations The Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Laura C. Rosella

Affiliations The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Meltem Tuna

Affiliations The Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Carol Bennett

Affiliations The Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Thérèse A. Stukel

Affiliations The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGM LR MT CB TAS. Analyzed the data: LR MT. Wrote the paper: DGM LR MT CB TAS.