Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Evidence Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Sergio Livingstone Pohlhammer 943, Independencia, Santiago, Chile.
• ² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada.
• ³ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; The Infectious Diseases Society of America, 1300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 190 Elizabeth Street. R. Fraser Elliott Building, 3-805, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/School of Public Health, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/School of Public Health, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada; Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
• ⁹ Mayo Clinic Evidence Based Practice Center, Harwick Building, Room 2-54, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
• ¹⁰ Epidemiology, Biostatistics und Prevention Institute (EBPI), University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, Zurich 8001, Switzerland; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, W6508, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address: guyatt@mcmaster.ca.