Moe, Jessica https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9557-1671
Wang, Yueqiao Elle
Schull, Michael J.
Dong, Kathryn
McGregor, Margaret J.
Hohl, Corinne M.
Holroyd, Brian R.
McGrail, Kimberlyn M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes for Health Research (394309)
Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (2018 Junior Investigator Award)
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (2018 VCHRI Innovation, Translational Research Award)
Article History
Received: 16 January 2022
Accepted: 15 June 2022
First Online: 14 July 2022
Declarations
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: The University of British Columbia Clinical Research Ethics Board approved our study (H18-00287 & H18-00708). Additionally, we received approvals from CIHI and PopData to create and analyze our study databases. Since we analyzed aggregate provincial administrative data, the UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board deemed it unnecessary to obtain individual informed consent from all participants in the study.
: Not applicable.
: KD discloses the following potential competing interests: grant from the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse; committee honoraria from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association; receipt of funding for travel from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to chair the AFC Addiction Medicine Committee; receipt of funding from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians for conference registration as a track chair; receipt of a Medical Leadership Salary from Alberta Health Services. JM discloses the following potential competing interests: receipt of research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Canada Substance Use and Addictions Program, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver Foundation, Vancouver Physician Staff Association, UBC Department of Family Practice & Community Geriatrics, Vancouver General Hospital Complex Pain and Addictions Service, BCCDC Foundation for Public Health, and UBC Faculty of Medicine. No other authors declare that they have competing interests.