About the Authors

Alexandra Papaioannou

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

papaioannou@hhsc.ca

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Courtney Kennedy

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Justin Lee

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Patricia Hewston

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Caitlin McArthur

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, School of Physiotherapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Shyam Maharaj

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan Adachi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Pauline Boulos

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Raja Bobba

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Alexander Rabinovich

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Brian McKenna

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Escarpment Health Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lisa Palubiski

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Escarpment Health Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dee Mangin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

Lehana Thabane

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Biostatistics Unit, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sharon Marr

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sharon Kaasalainen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Éric Tarride

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health, The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

Olga Theou

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Physiotherapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

David Armstrong

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Ahmed Negm

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Michael Noseworthy

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Kenneth Rockwood

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Lisa Dolovich

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hajar Abu Alrob

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Genevieve Hladysh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Karen Thompson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

George Ioannidis

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Geras Centre for Aging Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.