About the Authors

Steven Kwasi Korang

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

steven.korang@ctu.dk

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Elena von Rohden

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Areti Angeliki Veroniki

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction & Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Giok Ong

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Initiative, NHS Blood and Transplant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, United Kingdom

Owen Ngalamika

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dermatology & Venereology Division, University Teaching Hospital, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

Faiza Siddiqui

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sophie Juul

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Emil Eik Nielsen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Joshua Buron Feinberg

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Johanne Juul Petersen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Christian Legart

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark

Afoke Kokogho

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Directorate West Africa, Henry M. Jackson Foundation Medical Research International (HJFMRI), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Abuja, Nigeria

Mathias Maagaard

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Centre for Anaesthesiological Research, Department of Anaesthesiology, Zealand University Hospital, The Zealand Region of Denmark, Køge, Denmark

Sarah Klingenberg

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lehana Thabane

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Ariel Bardach

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

Affiliation Argentine Cochrane Center. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Agustín Ciapponi

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

Affiliation Argentine Cochrane Center. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Allan Randrup Thomsen

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

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Janus C. Jakobsen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Regional Health Research, The Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Christian Gluud

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, The Capital Region, Copenhagen University Hospital − Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Regional Health Research, The Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.