From the Departments of *Clinical Neurosciences, †Community Health Sciences, and ‡Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; §Faculty of Health Care, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld, Germany; ¶Canadian Institutes for Health Information, Ottawa, Canada; ∥Department of Surgery, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand; **Department of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; ††Information Management Department, Health Promotion, Disease and Injury, Alberta Health Services; and ‡‡World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Supported by a Population Health Investigator Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada (to N.J., H.Q., and B.H.); Senior Health Scholar Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and by a Government of Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research (to W.A.G.).
None of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose for this particular article. Two of the authors Robert Jakob and Bedihran Üstün are employed by the World Health Organization but it is not felt that this represents a conflict of interest.
Reprints: Nathalie Jetté, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403–29th St NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 2T9. E-mail: [email protected].
