About the Authors

Saif-El-Din El-Akkad

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Selena Shao

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation BC Renal, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Karen C. Tran

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hiten Naik

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Naveed Janjua

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Data and Analytic Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hind Sbihi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Data and Analytic Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Christopher Carlsten

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Lung Health, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

James A. Russell

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Adeera Levin

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Alyson W. Wong

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

awong@providencehealth.bc.ca

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.