From the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (TS, NKJA); Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (RVP); Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (MOM, DJC); and the Department of Epidemiology, Italian National Cancer Institute, Regina Elena, Rome, Italy (HJS).
None of the authors has any financial conflicts of interest, nor were they involved with developing the guideline rating instruments used in the study. Dr. Schünemann is a member of the GRADE Working Group.
Dr. Sinuff is supported, in part, by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Clinician Scientist Award; Dr. Cook is supported, in part, by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as a Canada Research Chair.
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