About the Authors

Cherry Chu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Tara Gomes

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

Affiliations Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada

Tony Antoniou

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

Affiliations Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

William W. L. Wong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Kitchener, ON, Canada

Naveed Janjua

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

Affiliations BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jason Robert Guertin

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

Affiliations Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Centre de Recherche en Organogénèse expérimentale de l’Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Kevin L. Schwartz

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

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jordan Feld

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

Affiliation Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jeff Kwong

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

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Mina Tadrous

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mina.tadrous@utoronto.ca

Affiliations Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MT has received consulting fees from CADTH and Green Shield Canada. TG has received funding from the Ontario MOH. WW has received funding from the Canadian Liver Foundation. NJ participates in Abbvie Advisory Board meetings. JF has received funding/consulting fees from Abbvie, Arbutus, Antios, Eiger, Enanta, Gilead, GSK, Janssen, Roche and Vir. All other authors have no conflict of interest to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.