Li, Wenshan
Manuel, Douglas G.
Isenberg, Sarina R.
Tanuseputro, Peter
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT 153251, PJT 153251)
Article History
Received: 20 May 2021
Accepted: 12 April 2022
First Online: 22 November 2022
Declarations
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: ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) is a prescribed entity under Ontario’s privacy legislation and has been authorized to collect and use health care data for the purposes of health system analysis, evaluation and decision support. Secure access to these data is governed by policies and procedures that are approved by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Projects, such as this study, that uses only data collected by ICES under Sect. 45 of PHIPA are exempt from REB review. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: Authors declared no financial or personal competing interest.