About the Authors

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mbuagblc@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Biostatistics Unit, Father Sean O’Sullivan Research Centre, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health (CDBPH), Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Carmen H. Logie

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research, Toronto, ON, Canada, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliations Departments of Paediatrics and Anaesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Centre for Evaluation of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Fiona Smaill

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

Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Marek Smieja

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

Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Ann N. Burchell

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

Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Beth Rachlis

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

Affiliation Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Eric Tarride

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

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Abigail Kroch

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

Affiliation Ontario HIV Treatment Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tony Mazzulli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Sinai Health System/University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Ontario, Canada

Elizabeth Alvarez

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

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Daeria O. Lawson

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Francis Nguyen

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

Affiliation ICES McMaster, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Richard Perez

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

Affiliation ICES McMaster, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hsien Seow

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

Ann N. Burchell is supported by an OHTN Leader Award, Canada Research Chair in Sexually Transmitted Infections and University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine Non-Clinician Scientist Award. Carmen H. Logie is supported by a Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.