[1
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Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton,
ON, Canada.
[2
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Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton,
ON, Canada; Departments of Internal Medicine/Nephrology and Biomedical and Health
Informatics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
[3
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Evidence-Based Medicine Centre, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University,
Lanzhou, China.
[4
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Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
[5
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Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton,
ON, Canada; Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON,
Canada.
[6
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
[7
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Department of Clinical Epidemiology, 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University
of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
[8
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Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
[9
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Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton,
ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Electronic
address: holger.schunemann@mcmaster.ca.