Antoniou, Tony
Pajer, Kathleen
Gardner, William
Penner, Melanie
Lunsky, Yona
McCormack, Daniel
Tadrous, Mina
Mamdani, Muhammad
Gozdyra, Peter
Juurlink, David N.
Gomes, Tara
Article History
Received: 6 September 2023
Accepted: 29 November 2023
First Online: 5 January 2024
Declarations
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: Melanie Penner has received consulting fees for unrelated work the Government of Nova Scotia. Mina Tadrous has received consulting fees for unrelated work from Green Shield Canada and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. Tara Gomes has received funding from the Ontario MOH and the Ontario College of Pharmacists.
: Melanie Penner has received consulting fees for unrelated work the Government of Nova Scotia. Mina Tadrous has received consulting fees for unrelated work from Green Shield Canada and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. Tara Gomes has received funding from the Ontario MOH and the Ontario College of Pharmacists.
: ICES is an independent, non-profit research institute whose legal status under Ontario’s health information privacy law allows it to collect and analyze health care and demographic data, without consent, for health system evaluation and improvement. ICES is a prescribed entity under Sect. 45 of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act. Section 45 authorizes ICES to collect personal health information, without consent, for the purpose of analysis or compiling statistical information with respect to the management of, evaluation or monitoring of, the allocation of resources to or planning for all or part of the health system. Projects conducted under Sect. 45, by definition, are exempt from and do not require review by a Research Ethics Board. This project was conducted under Sect. 45, and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Compliance Office.