Bouck, Zachary
Pendrith, Ciara
Chen, Xi-Kuan
Frood, Jennifer
Reason, Ben
Khan, Tanya
Costante, Alicia
Kirkham, Kyle
Born, Karen
Levinson, Wendy
Bhatia, R. Sacha
Article History
Received: 13 August 2018
Accepted: 18 June 2019
First Online: 3 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was deemed unnecessary in this study. CIHI is a prescribed entity under section 45(1) of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 [CitationRef removed]. This act applies to health information custodians in Ontario, such as the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, hospitals and physicians. These entities can disclose personal health information to us without patient consent for the purposes of analysis and compiling statistical information for the management of the health system. After consultation with the local Research Ethics Board at Women’s College Hospital, it was deemed that REB approval was not necessary.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at ExternalRef removed and declare: no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.