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Received: 1 November 2018

Accepted: 12 April 2019

First Online: 3 May 2019

Authors’ information

: DW is an Epidemiologist at BORN Ontario and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa; DBF is an Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and a Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute; AES is the past Scientific Manager and a current Project Advisor at BORN Ontario and a clinical investigator with the CHEO Research Institute; MCW is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and the Chief of Obstetrics at The Ottawa Hospital, an Epidemiologist and Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), a co-founder of the OMNI Research Group, and the Perinatal Director for BORN Ontario; SD is a Clinical Investigator at the CHEO Research Institute and the Knowledge Translation Specialist and Research Team Lead at BORN Ontario; JR is a Research Coordinator at the CHEO Research Institute and BORN Ontario; WEP is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa; DC is a Professor with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa; MT is a Biostatistician and Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program, OHRI, and Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.

: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Ethics Board (13/135X). Under the province of Ontario’s Privacy Act (PHIPA), the Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) as a prescribed registry, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Information (CIHI), as a prescribed entity are allowed to collect, use and disclose personal health information for prescribed purposes, including research, as long as the conditions described under PHIPA are met (PHIPA 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 44 (6)). A Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) is in place between BORN and CIHI.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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