About the Authors

David Ponka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Eric Agbata

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health Science, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom

Claire Kendall

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Family Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Vicky Stergiopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Oreen Mendonca

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Olivia Magwood

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Ammar Saad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Bonnie Larson

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Annie Huiru Sun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Neil Arya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Terry Hannigan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kednapa Thavorn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Anne Andermann

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Peter Tugwell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kevin Pottie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kpottie@uottawa.ca

Affiliations C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Department of Family Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

David Ponka, Claire Kendall, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Anne Andermann, Peter Tugwell and Kevin Pottie are principal investigators in an ongoing project to develop Canadian evidence-based guidelines for providing social programs and healthcare services to people who are homeless and vulnerably housed. Terry Hannigan was paid an honorarium by the Bruyère Research Institute to provide consultations on this work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest.