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Conflict of interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: no financial support for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years; A.B., L.A.S., and D.M. are members of the PROSPERO Advisory Group; A.C.T. is an author of one of the included systematic reviews but was not involved with the AMSTAR appraisal or data abstraction for this review and was blinded to the author names during the analysis, she is also an Associate Editor for the journal but was not involved with the decision to publish; S.E.S. and D.M. are part of the journal's Policy Advisory Board but were not involved with the decision to publish; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
Funding: No funding was received for this study. A.C.T. is funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award in Knowledge Synthesis, S.E.S. is funded by a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation, A.B. and L.A.S. are funded by the National Institute for Health Research, and D.M. is funded by a University of Ottawa Research Chair.
Ethics approval: Ethics approval was not required.
Transparency declaration: A.C.T. accepts full responsibility for the finished article, had access to all the data, and controlled the decision to publish. A.C.T. affirms that this manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that no discrepancies from the study as planned occurred.
