About the Authors

Khaled El Emam

kelemam@uottawa.ca

Affiliations Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Saeed Samet

Affiliation Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jun Hu

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Liam Peyton

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Craig Earle

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gayatri C. Jayaraman

Affiliations Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tom Wong

Affiliations Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Murat Kantarcioglu

Affiliation Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Fida Dankar

Affiliation Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Aleksander Essex

Affiliation Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KEE SS JH LP CE TW GJ MK FD. Performed the experiments: KEE SS JH. Analyzed the data: KEE SS JH MK FD. Wrote the paper: KEE SS JH LP TW GJ CE MK FD AE.