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Article History

Received: 28 January 2021

Accepted: 15 March 2021

First Online: 6 May 2021

Declarations

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: Institutional review board approvals have been given at each hospital as well as at the University of Montreal for the entire project by the Science and Health Research Ethics Board. For the quantitative component, the data being used are publicly available. There will be no risk of infection of researchers during data collection in hospitals as the observations are on operational processes (not with patient interactions). All study data will be stored on a secure cloud server with access restricted to only authorized study personnel. All analyses will be performed on anonymous and de-identified data, and a research data management plan will be created. As is the case in most social science research, we will be careful in our writing and knowledge transfer processes to respect the anonymity of participants. Our results will be fact-focused, and no denunciations or negative and stigmatizing judgements about health professionals or their structures will be made. We will be sensitive to gender representation within the research team and with participants. We will also adopt an approach respectful of North/South partnerships, including equity in project decision-making, travels, and authorship; open access for results and data dissemination; and translation of study outputs [CitationRef removed,CitationRef removed].

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.