Petrosyan, Yelena
Thavorn, Kednapa
Smith, Glenys
Maclure, Malcolm
Preston, Roanne
van Walravan, Carl
Forster, Alan J.
Article History
Received: 28 November 2020
Accepted: 28 July 2021
First Online: 28 August 2021
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ottawa Health Science Network Research Ethics Board.
: Not applicable.
: ICES is a prescribed entity under section 45 of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act. Section 45 authorizes ICES to collect personal health information, without informed consent, for the purpose of analysis or compiling statistical information with respect to the management, evaluation or monitoring of the allocation of resources to or planning for all or part of the health system. Projects conducted under section 45, by definition, do not require review by a Research Ethics Board. This project was conducted under section 45 and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Legal Office.
: No researcher involved in this study had any declared or otherwise known conflicts of interest.