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Wharton, Sean
Macklin, David
Morin, Marie-Philippe
Blavignac, Jessica
Menzies, Stuart
Garofalo, Laura
Francisco, Michelle A.
Thomas, Carol
Barakat, Maxime
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Article History
Received: 16 September 2021
Accepted: 18 April 2022
First Online: 2 May 2022
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: The Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS2) is a Canadian guideline for the ethical conduct of research involving humans and/or human biological materials. TCPS2 article 2.4 specifies that "REB review is not required for research that relies exclusively on secondary use of anonymous information, or anonymous human biological materials, so long as the process of data linkage or recording or dissemination of results does not generate identifiable information”.A formal ethics committee review was not sought nor required for this program as it was developed for educational purposes only and was not intended to measure therapeutic outcomes. Participating physicians collected patient information through electronic medical records and chart audits to identify trends for self-reflection and educational purposes only. No identifying patient information was collected, and all physician- and patient-related data collected from the surveys were anonymized, prior to use in the study and is considered secondary use. Participants provided their consent to participate in the program by signing a participant agreement form.Data were collected and analyzed in aggregate and were not linked to individual participant survey responses or consent information. The data analyzed in this manuscript is based solely on the use of the anonymized data and the results presented does not generate identifiable information. The manuscript was prepared in accordance with the Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence in Education (SQUIRE-EDU) statement for quality improvement studies in education.
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: The i-ACT™ in Obesity program and development of the publication was supported by Bausch Health Canada Inc. Maxime Barakat and Jessica Blavignac are employees of Bausch Health Canada Inc. Sean Wharton, David Macklin, Marie-Philippe Morin, Stuart Menzies, Laura Garofalo, Michelle A. Francisco and Carol Thomas received direct or indirect funding from Bausch Health Companies Inc.
