Shing, Emily https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0006-3493
Wang, John
Nelder, Mark P.
Parpia, Camilla
Gubbay, Jonathan B.
Loeb, Mark
Kristjanson, Erik
Marchand-Austin, Alex
Moore, Stephen
Russell, Curtis
Sider, Doug
Sander, Beate
Funding for this research was provided by:
Public Health Ontario
Article History
Received: 27 August 2019
Accepted: 24 October 2019
First Online: 17 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (Public Health Ontario) institutional Ethics Review Board. Health administrative data sets were accessed through ICES. ICES is an independent, non-profit research institute funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health. As a prescribed entity under Ontario’s privacy legislation, ICES is authorized to collect and use health care data for the purposes of health system analysis, evaluation and decision support. Secure access to these data is governed by policies and procedures that are approved by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.