Bhatia, Dominika http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9621-0672
Sutradhar, Rinku
Austin, Peter C.
Giannakeas, Vasily
Jaakkimainen, Liisa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3203-0007
Paszat, Lawrence F.
Lipscombe, Lorraine L. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7412-7993
Funding for this research was provided by:
canadian institutes for health research (123263)
ontario institute for cancer research
diabetes canada (Diabetes Investigator Award (no award number))
women's college hospital (Helen Marion Walker Soroptimist Women’s Health Research Scholarship (no award number))
heart and stroke foundation of canada (Mid-Career Investigator Award (no award number))
ontario ministry of health and long-term care (Clinician-Scientist Award (no award number))
Article History
Received: 18 June 2021
Accepted: 1 November 2021
First Online: 20 November 2021
Declarations
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: None to declare.
: This study complied with the ICES data privacy guidelines and was approved by the ICES Privacy and Legal Office. ICES is an independent, non-profit research institute that is a prescribed entity under section 45 of Ontario’s <i>Personal Health Information Protection Act</i>, which authorizes ICES to collect personal health information, without consent, for the purposes of health system analysis. By definition, studies conducted under section 45 do not require approval by an institutional research ethics board.