Antoniou, Tony
McCormack, Daniel
Kitchen, Sophie
Pajer, Kathleen
Gardner, William
Lunsky, Yona
Penner, Melanie
Tadrous, Mina
Mamdani, Muhammad
Juurlink, David N.
Gomes, Tara
Article History
Received: 12 October 2022
Accepted: 26 September 2023
First Online: 19 October 2023
Declarations
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: ICES is an independent, non-profit research institute whose legal status under Ontario’s health information privacy law allows it to collect and analyze health care and demographic data, without consent, for health system evaluation and improvement. ICES is a prescribed entity under Sect. 45 of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act. Section 45 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 conducted under Sect. 45, by definition, are exempt from and do not require review by a Research Ethics Board. This is confirmed in a letter from the REB of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, ICES’ Research Ethics Board of Record (See Appendix A). This project was conducted under Sect. 45, and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Compliance Office.All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: Melanie Penner has received consulting fees for unrelated work from Addis & Associates/Roche and from the Government of Nova Scotia. Mina Tadrous has received consulting fees for unrelated work from Green Shield Canada and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. Tara Gomes has received funding from the Ontario MOH for unrelated work. Tony Antoniou has no competing interests. Daniel McCormack has no competing interests. Sophie Kitchen has no competing interests. Kathleen Pajer has no competing interests. William Gardner has no competing interests. Muhammad Mamdani has no competing interests. Yona Lunsky has no competing interests. David Juurlink has no competing interests.