Comparative analysis of methods for identifying multimorbidity patterns among people with opioid use disorder: A retrospective single-cohort study

• Myanca Rodrigues,

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7953-773X

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• Tea Rosic,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7406-4056

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• Glenda Babe,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Brittany B. Dennis,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of Social Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Alannah McEvoy,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Richard Perez,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Claire de Oliveira,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3961-6008

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• Sameer Parpia,

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

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Zainab Samaan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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• Lehana Thabane

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thabanl@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Biostatistics Unit, Research Institute at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Pediatrics/Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0355-9734

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