About the Authors

Nigar Sekercioglu

nigars2003@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lehana Thabane

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics and Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Evaluation of Medicine, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Biostatistics Unit, Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Juan Pablo Díaz Martínez

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Gihad Nesrallah

Affiliations Humber River Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christopher J. Longo

Affiliation DeGroote School of Business, 4350 South Service Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Jason W. Busse

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Noori Akhtar-Danesh

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Arnav Agarwal

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reem Al-Khalifah

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Alfonso Iorio

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Gordon H. Guyatt

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS GG JB LT AI NAD CJL AA RA GN JPDM. Analyzed the data: NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS LT GG AI. Wrote the paper: NS. Critically revised the manuscript: NS GG JB LT NAD CJL AI AA RA GN JPDM. Read and approved the final manuscript: NS GG JB LT NAD CJL AI AA RA GN JPDM. Interpretation of data: NS GG JB LT AI NAD CJL AA RA GN JPDM.