About the Authors

Shabnam Iezadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Shabnam Iezadi, Kamal Gholipour

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

iezadi.sh@iums.ac.ir (SI); gholipourk@tbzmed.ac.ir, dr.gholipourk@gmail.com (KG)

Affiliation Hospital Management Research Center, Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Kamal Gholipour

Contributed equally to this work with: Shabnam Iezadi, Kamal Gholipour

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

iezadi.sh@iums.ac.ir (SI); gholipourk@tbzmed.ac.ir, dr.gholipourk@gmail.com (KG)

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Saber Azami-Aghdash

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Akbar Ghiasi

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

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

Hamid Pourasghari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Management Research Center, Health Management Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Fariba Pashazadeh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.