About the Authors

Paula A. Rochon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

paula.rochon@wchospital.ca

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Gruneir

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Chaim M. Bell

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rachel Savage

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sudeep S. Gill

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Wei Wu

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vasily Giannakeas

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nathan M. Stall

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dallas P. Seitz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Sharon-Lise Normand

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lynn Zhu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nathan Herrmann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lisa McCarthy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Colin Faulkner

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jerry H. Gurwitz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter C. Austin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Susan E. Bronskill

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

There is a data sharing agreement between the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) (a not for profit corporation) and the commercial company, IMS Brogan Inc., which governs a piece of the ICES data used to generate the project dataset. No employment relationship should be inferred in connection with this statement. No author on this work is employed by IMS Brogan. Dr. Gurwitz serves as a member of the UnitedHealthcare Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. Dr. Seitz involves in a clinical trial sponsored by Hoffman La Roche. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.