About the Authors

Moein Yoosefi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Armin Hatefi

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

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Hensley H. Mariathas

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

Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Christopher Patey

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Family & Emergency Medicine, Discipline of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Paul Norman

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carbonear Institute for Rural Reach and Innovation by the Sea, Carbonear General Hospital, Carbonear, Newfoundland, Canada

Oliver Hurley

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

Affiliation Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, Department of Quality and Learning Health Systems, Data and Information Services, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Bahareh Ahmadzadeh

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Aswathy Geetha Manukumar

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Anna Walsh

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Shabnam Asghari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sasghari@mun.ca

Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.