About the Authors
- Nigar Sekercioglu
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* E-mail: nigars2003@yahoo.com
Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Argie Angeliki Veroniki
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Affiliation Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lehana Thabane
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Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, 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, 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
- Jason W. Busse
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Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, 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
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Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Alfonso Iorio
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Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Luciane Cruz Lopes
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Affiliation Pharmaceutical Sciences Master Course, University of Sorocaba, UNISO, Sorocaba, Brazil
- Gordon H. Guyatt
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Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, 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
Conceptualization: NS GHG LT JWB NAD AI AAV. Data curation: NS LCL. Formal analysis: NS AAV. Methodology: NS GHG LT JWB NAD AI AAV. Resources: NS. Software: NS. Supervision: GHG. Validation: NS. Visualization: NS. Writing – original draft: NS. Writing – review & editing: NS GHG LT JWB NAD AI AAV.