About the Authors

Thomas C. Scheier

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Richard Whitlock

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Mark Loeb

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

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Philip James Devereaux

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

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, World Health Research Trust, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Andre Lamy

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Michael McGillion

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

MacKenzie Quantz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Schulich School for Medicine & Dentistry, London, ON, Canada

Ingrid Copland

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

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Shun-Fu Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Dominik Mertz

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

mertzd@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

T.C.S.: Nothing to disclose R.W.: Abbott (Grant/Research Support), Atricure (Grant/Research Support), CytoSorbents (Grant/Research Support) M.L.: Nothing to disclose P.J.D.: Abbott Diagnostics (Advisor/Consultant), Abbott Diagnostics (Grant/Research Support), AOP Pharma (Grant/Research Support), Astra Zeneca (Advisor/Consultant), Astra Zeneca (Advisor/Consultant), Bayer (Advisor/Consultant), CloudDX (Monitoring Devices), Quidel Canada (Advisor/Consultant), Renibus (Advisor/Consultant), Roche Canada (Advisor/Consultant), Roche Diagnostics (Grant/Research Support), Siemens (Grant/Research Support), Trimedic (Advisor/Consultant) S.F.L.: Nothing to disclose D.M.: KCI Inc. USA (Grant/Research Support) This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.