McLeod, Lianne
Bharadwaj, Lalita
Epp, Tasha Y.
Waldner, Cheryl L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
Article History
Received: 28 July 2018
Accepted: 17 December 2018
First Online: 7 January 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The de-identified administrative health data that support the findings of this study were provided by Saskatchewan Ministry of Health through the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council. Access to the data was based on a license that limited use and access to the current study, and the data are not publicly available. Similarly, restrictions apply to the de-identified water-quality datasets that were provided by the Water Security of Agency of Saskatchewan; these were used under license for the current study and are not publicly available. The census data used to derive covariates is publicly available from Statistics Canada atExternalRef removed(Statistics CanadaCitationRef removed).
: Ethics approval for the use of health records data was obtained from the University of Saskatchewan Behavioral Research Ethics Board (Bio 12-332). Consent to participate was not applicable as the study made use of only secondary data sources.