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Predictive models of disease burden at diagnosis in persons with adult-onset ulcerative colitis using health administrative data

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Published Online: 2019-01-21

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Murthy, Sanjay K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-7897
Shukla, Tushar

Antonova, Lilia

Belair, Marc-Andre

Ramsay, Tim

Gallinger, Zane

Nguyen, Geoffrey C.

Benchimol, Eric I.
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Article History

Received: 24 October 2018

Accepted: 25 December 2018

First Online: 21 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study protocol and audit of patient medical records was approved by the Research Ethics Boards of the Ottawa Health Sciences Network (Ottawa, Canada). Individual patient consent was not required, as per the regulatory requirements of the Government of Canada for low-risk, chart review studies. The use of health administrative data in this project was authorized under section 45 of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, which does not require review by a Research Ethics Board

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