About the Authors

Lilia Antonova

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

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Chandy Somayaji

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Jillian Cameron

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Monica Sirski

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Maria E. Sundaram

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, United States of America, ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada

James Ted McDonald

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Sharmistha Mishra

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, MAP Center for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jeffrey C. Kwong

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Alan Katz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Stefan Baral

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Lisa Caulley

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Andrew Calzavara

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada

Martin Corsten

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

‡ MC and SJO are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki

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

stjohnson@toh.ca

‡ MC and SJO are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no completing interests exist.