Understanding resource utilization and mortality in COPD to support policy making: A microsimulation study

• Elizabeth G. Bond,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1621-5503

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• Lusine Abrahamyan,

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

  Affiliations Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Mohammad K. A. Khan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Andrea Gershon,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Murray Krahn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Ping Li,

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

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Rajibul Mian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Nicholas Mitsakakis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Mohsen Sadatsafavi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0419-7862

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• Teresa To,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Petros Pechlivanoglou ,

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

  * E-mail: petros.pechlivanoglou@sickkids.ca

  Affiliations Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• for the Canadian Respiratory Research Network