About the Authors
- Mohamad Alshurafa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Alshurafa, Matthias Briel
Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Matthias Briel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Alshurafa, Matthias Briel
* E-mail: brielm@uhbs.ch
Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Elie A. Akl
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Departments of Medicine and Family Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States of America
- Ted Haines
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Paul Moayyedi
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Stephen J. Gentles
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Lorena Rios
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Chau Tran
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Affiliation Chau Tran Consulting, Toronto, Canada
- Neera Bhatnagar
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Francois Lamontagne
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Affiliation Centre de Recherche Clinique Étienne-Le Bel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
- Stephen D. Walter
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Gordon H. Guyatt
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Competing Interests
All authors declare that they received no support from any organisation for the submitted work; that they have no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; that they have no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MA MB EAA SDW TH FL GHG. Analyzed the data: MA MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDW PM GHG. Wrote the paper: MA MB GHG. Conducted the study: MA MB EAA TH NB SJG LR FL CT TH SDW GHG. Reviewed the manuscript for important intellectual content: EAA TH NB SJG LR FL CT TH SDW PM.