Sims, Scott Anthony
Pereira, Gavin
Fatovich, Daniel
Preen, David
O’Donnell, Melissa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Raine Medical Research Foundation
National Health and Medical Research Council (#1099655)
Article History
Received: 17 August 2023
Accepted: 8 January 2024
First Online: 17 January 2024
Declarations
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: Our project was granted ethical approval by the Department of Health WA Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC Approval 2016/55; file reference– RA/4/1/8822), and by the Western Australian Aboriginal Human Research Ethics Committee (WAAHEC HREC Project Reference: 755). Administrative data in WA are collected without consent, as permitted under national and other state-based legislation relating to secondary use of data for monitoring and research (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2015). As such, HREC approved a waiver of informed consent of participants for the extraction of retrospective de-identified data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors have no conflicts of interest.