Little, Alana
Roder, David
Zhao, George W.
Challam, Sheetal
Malalasekera, Ashanya
Currow, David
Article History
Received: 11 April 2022
Accepted: 9 September 2022
First Online: 27 September 2022
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was provided by the NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee (HREC/15/CIPHS/15) and the AIHW Ethics Committee (EO2016/1/224). Methods of the study followed a scientific review guided by the STROBE checklist for observational studies in epidemiology. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations, A waiver of consent was obtained for this study provided by the NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee which waived the usual requirement for the consent of the individual to the use of their health information in a research project, in line with the State Privacy Commissioner’s Guidelines for Research and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW) and the Guidelines approved under Section 95/95A of the Privacy Act 1988.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.