About the Authors
- Paula A. Rochon
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: 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
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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
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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
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sudeep S. Gill
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Wei Wu
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Vasily Giannakeas
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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
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Dallas P. Seitz
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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
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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
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Nathan Herrmann
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lisa McCarthy
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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
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Jerry H. Gurwitz
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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
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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
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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.