Footnotes

• Contributors These guidelines were developed by an international group led by KAMG (University of British Columbia, Canada) and VLGT (Loughborough University, UK).

• Funding This study was funded by the Loughborough University, the Peter Harrison Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Rick Hansen Institute.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient consent Not required.

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

• Collaborators AE Latimer-Cheung, A Barrow, C Bourne, P Carruthers, M Bernardi, DS Ditor, S Gaudet, S de Groot, KC Hayes, AL Hicks, CA Leicht, S Macaluso, PJ Manns, CB McBride, V Noonan, P Pomerleau, JH Rimmer, RB Shaw, B Smith, KM Smith, J Steeves, D Tussler, CR West and DL Wolfe. International Panel Members.