PRIME-IPD SERIES Part 3. The PRIME-IPD tool fills a gap in guidance for preparing IPD for analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 85 Primrose Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6M1, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, 600 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 5Z3, Canada. Electronic address: odewi090@uottawa.ca.
• ² Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 85 Primrose Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6M1, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, 600 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 5Z3, Canada.
• ³ Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 85 Primrose Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6M1, Canada.
• ⁴ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, 600 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 5Z3, Canada; Department of Medicine (Cardiology), The University of Ottawa Heart Institute and University of Ottawa, 40 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4W7, Canada.
• ⁵ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St Room 500, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada.
• ⁶ Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada; Institute for Global Health & Development, Aga Khan University, South-Central Asia, East Africa & United Kingdom, Karachi, Pakistan.
• ⁷ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St Suite E8527, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States.
• ⁸ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.
• ⁹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 501 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Rd #2044, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8M5, Canada; WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, Bruyère Research Institute, 85 Primrose Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6M1, Canada.
• ¹⁰ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, 600 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 5Z3, Canada; Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4W7, Canada.