Kornas, Kathy
Sarkar, Joykrishna
Fransoo, Randall
Rosella, Laura C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Partnerships for Health System Improvement (FRN 141803, FRN 141803)
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Research Manitoba
Article History
Received: 17 February 2023
Accepted: 20 June 2023
First Online: 19 July 2023
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Boards at the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and University of Manitoba. ICES is a prescribed entity under Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and the University of Manitoba is a trustee under Manitoba’s Personal Health Information Act (PHIA). Section 45 of PHIPA and Sect. 24 of PHIA authorizes ICES and the University of Manitoba 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. The use of the data in this project is authorized under PHIPA Sect. 45 and PHIA Sect. 24. Permission to access the data used in this study was provided by ICES, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, and Statistics Canada. Data used in this study were anonymized before its use. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.