About the Authors

Mark Harrison

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

mark.harrison@ubc.ca

Affiliations Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, Canada

Luke Spooner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Nick Bansback

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Katherine Milbers

Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Cheryl Koehn

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthritis Consumer Experts/JointHealth, Vancouver, Canada

Kam Shojania

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, Canada, Division of Rheumatology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Axel Finckh

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Marie Hudson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

Mark Harrison holds the UBC Professorship in Sustainable Health Care, which is funded by AmgenCanada, AstraZeneca Canada, Eli Lilly Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Canada, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada, Pfizer Canada, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada), Hoffman-La Roche, LifeScan Canada, and Lundbeck Canada. Kam Shojania is the Local PI of an investigator-initiated study of abatacept for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (ABROGATE). Marie Hudson is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Santé. This does not alter the authors’adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.