Maxwell, Colleen J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7988-2899
Campitelli, Michael A.
Diong, Christina
Mondor, Luke
Hogan, David B.
Amuah, Joseph E.
Leslie, Sarah
Seitz, Dallas
Gill, Sudeep
Thavorn, Kednapa
Wodchis, Walter P.
Gruneir, Andrea
Teare, Gary
Bronskill, Susan E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP-136854)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2018
Accepted: 27 August 2018
First Online: 12 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Board at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Waterloo, Office of Research Ethics (ORE File #19950). Informed consent by participants was not required. ICES is a prescribed entity under section 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. This project was conducted under section 45, and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Compliance Office.
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