Berberich, Amanda J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9461-9036
Ouédraogo, Alexandra M.
Shariff, Salimah Z.
Hegele, Robert A.
Clemens, Kristin K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
institute for clinical evaluative sciences
ontario ministry of health and long-term care
academic medical organization of southwestern ontario
schulich school of medicine and dentistry
western university
lawson health research institute
canadian institutes of health research
heart and stroke foundation of canada (G-18-0022147)
Article History
Received: 8 July 2021
Accepted: 5 August 2021
First Online: 3 September 2021
Declarations
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: ICES 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 approved by ICES’ Privacy and Compliance Office.
: Not applicable.
: KC received a research award that was sponsored in part by Astra Zeneca. She has attended Merck sponsored medical conferences. She has received honoraria for delivering Certified Medical Education talks from Sutherland Global Services Canada ULC, the Toronto Ontario Knowledge Translation Working Group, and the Canadian Medical and Surgical Knowledge Translation Research Group.