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Article History

Received: 25 October 2021

Accepted: 11 April 2022

First Online: 7 May 2022

Declarations

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: All data for this project were obtained from the ALSWH (seefor further details), approved under their Expression of Interest process (EOI A696) and provided in de-identified form. This project has ongoing ethical clearance from the University of Newcastle and University of Queensland’s Human Research Ethics Committees. Ethical approval for linkage of ALSWH survey data to the Admitted Patients Data Collections (APDC) was received from the NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee and other equivalent state and territory-based committees. Linkages to the National Death Index (NDI) was approved by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Ethics Committee. Women provided explicit written consent to participate in the ALSWH as well as for linkage to de-identified administrative health records prior to 2005. From 2005, an ‘opt-out’ consent process was approved by the data custodians and relevant ethics committees for data linkage, with participants regularly reminded of this process. ALSWH participants who decline health record linkage are excluded from data linkage requests.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.