About the Authors

Melanie Sekeres

*E-mail: melanie.sekeres@utoronto.ca

Current address: Neurosciences & Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Affiliations Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jennifer L. Gold

Affiliation Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

An-Wen Chan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joel Lexchin

Affiliations School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Moher

Affiliations Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Marleen L. P. Van Laethem

Affiliation Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James Maskalyk

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lorraine Ferris

Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nathan Taback

Affiliations Centre for Research on Inner City Health, The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paula A. Rochon

Affiliations Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL AC JM DM NT MS JG LF MV PR. Performed the experiments: MS JG. Analyzed the data: AC MS JG PR. Wrote the paper: MS JG PR.