Footnotes

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• Contributors PJG and GCR developed the idea for the editorial. BO'N and PJG developed the first draft. All authors read and edited all versions of the manuscript.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests PJG has received grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), the PSI Foundation and The Hospital for Sick Children. He received non-financial support from the EBMLive Steering Committee (expenses reimbursed to attend conferences) and the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (as a member of the institute advisory board, expenses reimbursed to attend meetings). PJG is a member of the CMAJ Open and BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine Editorial Board. BO'N has no interest to declare. GCR was financially supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR), the Naji Foundation, and the Rotary Foundation to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (2017–2020) but no longer has any financial conflicts of interest. GCR is an associate editor of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.