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Haj-Ali, Wissam http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1232-5702
Hutchison, Brian
Moineddin, Rahim
Wodchis, Walter P.
Glazier, Richard H.
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Article History
Received: 27 August 2020
Accepted: 1 June 2021
First Online: 14 September 2021
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: ICES (formerly known as Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) 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. Projects conducted under section 45, by definition, do not require review by a Research Ethics Board. This project was conducted under section 45 and access to the data was approved by ICES’ Privacy and Legal Office.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
