Affiliations:
1. Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CA.
2. Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
3. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CA
4. Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, CA.
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Conflicts of interest: None.
Sources of financial support: None.
Data access: Medicare Claims Synthetic Public Use files are freely available online. SAS code is included in the appendix of this paper, along with the base analytic cohort, are on GitHub at https://github.com/mawcpharmdphd/CCW_tutorial.