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Article History

Received: 6 December 2023

Accepted: 20 September 2024

First Online: 1 October 2024

Declarations

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: This evaluation was approved by the “Review of Quality Improvement Studies” (ReQuiST) process at Unity Health Toronto (UHT) on December 20 2022, as it focuses on evaluating and improving an existing program. UHT is an academic hospital system fully-affiliated with the University of Toronto. Approval was received after both program and evaluation details were assessed by ReQuiST for the project application titled: <i>Indoor Air Quality, COVID-19 and community spaces: Direct Knowledge Translation Program_12_06_22</i>. Approval was supplied in the form of an email to the program project manager which specified the following: <i>This initiative was formally reviewed by institutional authorities at Unity Health Toronto and deemed to neither require approval from its Research Ethics Board nor written informed consent from Unity Health Toronto participants</i>.Consent to participate was obtained from participants through the process outlined in this paragraph. Participants were informed of the terms of participation in the introduction to the online survey. They were told that their participation was voluntary and anonymous. Participants were also informed that they were free to skip questions, end the survey at any time, or withdraw their answers by declining to click “submit." Finally, participants were informed that their consent to participate was implied if they chose to take part in the survey once they had read the introduction.

: Consent for publication was obtained through the process outlined in this paragraph. Participants were informed in the survey introduction that the team may use anonymized information from the survey in an academic publication. The were also informed that their consent to participate in the survey was implied if they chose to take part in the survey once they had read the introduction.

: The authors declare no competing interests.