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- Irfan A. Dhalla, MD MSc,
- Muhammad M. Mamdani, PharmD MPH,
- Marco L.A. Sivilotti, MD MSc,
- Alex Kopp, BA,
- Omar Qureshi, MD,
- David N. Juurlink, MD PhD
- From the Departments of Medicine (Dhalla, Juurlink) and of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Dhalla), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Medicine and the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Dhalla, Mamdani), St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Mamdani, Kopp, Juurlink), Toronto, Ont.; the Departments of Emergency Medicine and of Pharmacology and Toxicology (Sivilotti), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; the Department of Family Medicine (Qureshi), State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Juurlink), Toronto, Ont.; and the Faculty of Medicine (Mandani), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Correspondence to:
Dr. Irfan A. Dhalla, Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond St., Toronto ON M5B 1W8; dhallai{at}smh.toronto.on.ca
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