About the Authors

Shabnam Iezadi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Management Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Saber Azami-Aghdash

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Akbar Ghiasi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HEB School of Business & Administration, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Aziz Rezapour

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hamid Pourasghari

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Management Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Fariba Pashazadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Kamal Gholipour

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gholipourk@tbzmed.ac.ir

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.