1. Internal Medicine Service, German Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
2. Clinical Research and Data Center, South China Research Center for Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Medical College of Acu-Moxi and Rehabilitation, and
3. Department of Oncology, Zhongshan Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, China;
4. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy;
5. Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, UT;
6. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;
7. Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, and
8. Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada;
9. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia;
10. Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA;
11. Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA;
12. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;
13. Epistemonikos Foundation, Santiago, Chile;
14. Department of Internal Medicine and Centro Evidencia Unversidad Católica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and
15. Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada