Lu, Mindy
Bronskill, Susan E.
Strauss, Rachel
Boblitz, Alexa
Guan, Jun
Im, James H.B.
Rochon, Paula A.
Gruneir, Andrea
Savage, Rachel D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT162221)
Article History
Received: 28 July 2022
Accepted: 5 June 2023
First Online: 21 June 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: ICES is an independent, non-profit research institute funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Long-Term Care (MLTC), and 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 Sect. 45 of PHIPA, and use no other data, are exempt from REB review. The use of the data in this project is authorized under Sect. 45 and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Legal Office. Women’s College Hospital Research Ethics Board also performed an administrative review (#2019-0148-E). Secure access to these data is governed by policies and procedures that are approved by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Verbal informed consent was collected from CCHS-HA respondents by Statistics Canada to share and link their data to other health administrative records; this study uses data only from respondents who consented to share and link their data. We confirm that all methods in our study were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
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