Jaakkimainen, Liisa
Chung, Hannah
Lu, Hong
Pinzaru, Bogdan
Candido, Elisa
Article History
Received: 1 February 2021
Accepted: 8 November 2021
First Online: 22 November 2021
Declarations
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: ICES is a prescribed entity under Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). Section 45 of PHIPA 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 that use data collected by ICES under section 45 of PHIPA, and use no other data, are exempt from REB review. The use of the data in this project is authorized under section 45 and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Legal Office.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors have no competing interests or conflicts of interest to declare.