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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to all of our coders, including Cynthia Yamamoto, Alexandra Éthier, Melissa Giesbrecht, Breanna Horne and to the rest of our project team. Annie Carrier is a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé Junior 1 researcher (#296437).
Conflict of Interest statement : The authors report having no conflicts of interest.
Funding: This work was funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (Grant # 162278)
Figure legend: Figure 1: Search process flowchart