About the Authors

Yogita S. Patel

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

patelys@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Waël C. Hanna

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Christine Fahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Yaron Shargall

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Thomas K. Waddell

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kazuhiro Yasufuku

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tiago N. Machuca

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mauricio Pipkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jean-Marc Baste

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rouen Normandy University, Rouen Cedex, France

Feng Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Shiwcharan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Funding Reform and Case Costing, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Gary Foster

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lehana Thabane

Contributed equally to this work with: Yogita S. Patel, Waël C. Hanna, Christine Fahim, Yaron Shargall, Thomas K. Waddell, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Tiago N. Machuca, Mauricio Pipkin, Jean-Marc Baste, Feng Xie, Andrea Shiwcharan, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.