Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China yingwwy@163.com.
• ² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L8, Canada.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Lahey Hospital and Medical Centre, Burlington, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Research, CLEAR-Methods Centre, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁶ Department of Anaesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• ⁸ University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Liverpool Clinical Trials Clinical Trials Research Centre, Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹² Gastro Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹³ Department of Statistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• ¹⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
• ¹⁵ Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS), INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• ¹⁶ School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ¹⁷ York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁹ MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation, Oslo, Norway.