About the Authors

Andrea J. Darzi

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

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Li Wang

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

Affiliations Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

John J. Riva

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

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

Rami Z. Morsi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Rana Charide

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Rachel J. Couban

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Samer G. Karam

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Kian Torabiardakani

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Annie Lok

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Shanil Ebrahim

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Sheena Bance

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

Regina Kunz

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

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Evidence-based Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Gordon H. Guyatt

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Jason W. Busse

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

bussejw@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.