About the Authors
- Stuart G. Nicholls
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Children′s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- Pauline Quach
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
- Erik von Elm
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Affiliation Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Astrid Guttmann
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- David Moher
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- Irene Petersen
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Affiliation Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Henrik T. Sørensen
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Liam Smeeth
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Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Sinéad M. Langan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sinéad M. Langan, Eric I. Benchimol
Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Eric I. Benchimol
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sinéad M. Langan, Eric I. Benchimol
* E-mail: ebenchimol@cheo.on.ca
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Children′s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Children′s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SGN EvE AG DM IP HTS LM SML EIB. Performed the experiments: SGN PQ SML EIB. Analyzed the data: SGN PQ SML EIB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGN PQ SML EIB. Wrote the paper: SGN PQ EvE AG DM IP HTS LM SML EIB.