About the Authors

Nadia A. Khan

nakhanubc@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Finlay A. McAlister

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Patient Health Outcomes Research and Clinical Effectiveness Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Louise Pilote

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Anita Palepu

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hude Quan

Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Michael D. Hill

Affiliations Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jiming Fang

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Moira K. Kapral

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NAK LP MDH AP FAM HQ MKK. Data curation: NAK MKK. Formal analysis: NAK MKK JF. Funding acquisition: NAK FAM LP AP HQ MDH MKK. Investigation: NAK MKK JF. Methodology: NAK LP MDH AP FAM HQ MKK. Project administration: NAK MKK. Resources: NAK MKK JF FAM LP. Software: JF. Supervision: NAK MKK. Validation: NAK LP MDH AP FAM HQ MKK. Visualization: NAK FAM LP AP HQ MDH JF MKK. Writing – original draft: NAK. Writing – review & editing: NAK FAM LP AP HQ MDH JF MKK.