About the Authors

Idris Guessous

idris.guessous@chuv.ch

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Daniel Periard

Affiliation Service of Angiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Diane Lorenzetti

Affiliations Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jacques Cornuz

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

William A. Ghali

Affiliations Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC IG WG DP. Analyzed the data: JC IG WG DP. Wrote the paper: IG WG. Other: Wrote the first draft of the paper: IG. Critically reviewed the draft: DL WG JC DP. Perfomed the search strategy: DL.