Tonelli, Marcello*, †, ‡ , §; Wiebe, Natasha*; Culleton, Bruce‖; House, Andrew¶; Rabbat, Chris††; Fok, Mei*; McAlister, Finlay*, ‡ , §; Garg, Amit X.¶ ,**
Departments of *Medicine, †Critical Care, and ‡Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, and §Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, and ‖Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, and Departments of ¶Medicine and **Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, and ††Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Address correspondence to: Dr. Finlay McAlister, University of Alberta, Department of Medicine, 8440 112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2B7, Canada. Phone: 780-407-1399; Fax: 780-407-2680; E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted April 20, 2006
Received October 18, 2005