About the Authors

Olivia Magwood

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Ginetta Salvalaggio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Michaela Beder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto Dept of Psychiatry, Toronto, ON, Canada

Claire Kendall

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Departments of Family Medicine & School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Victoire Kpade

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Wahab Daghmach

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Gilbert Habonimana

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Zack Marshall

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Social Work, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Ellen Snyder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health and Preventative Medicine Residency Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Tim O’Shea

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Robin Lennox

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Helen Hsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Peter Tugwell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kevin Pottie

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kpottie@uottawa.ca

Affiliations C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Departments of Family Medicine & School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

Kevin Pottie, Ginetta Salvalaggio, Claire Kendall and Peter Tugwell are principal investigators in an ongoing project to develop Canadian evidence-based guidelines for providing social programs and healthcare services to people who are homeless and vulnerably housed. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.