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Accepted: 12 July 2023

First Online: 21 August 2023

Declarations

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: We acknowledge the infrastructure support of the David Braley Primary Care Research Collaborative. Dee Mangin is supported by the David Braley Chair in Family Medicine. Funding for a concurrent randomised controlled trial of the TAPER pathway is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

: Dee Mangin, Larkin Lamarche, Jeffrey A. Templeton, Jennifer Salerno, Henry Siu, Johanna Trimble, Abbas Ali, Jobin Varughese, Amy Page and Christopher Etherton-Beer have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

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: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

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: DM had the idea for the manuscript and led design of the model for the pathway, approach to goals and priorities as well as evidence assessment presentation, in consultation with coinvestigators and other stakeholders as described here and in other papers. DM, LL, JT and AA drafted the first version of the manuscript. All authors contributed to and critically revised the manuscript.