Kitchen, Sophie A.
McGrail, Kimberlyn
Wickham, Maeve E.
Law, Michael R.
Hohl, Corinne M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (N/A)
BC Ministry of Health (N/A)
Article History
Received: 4 December 2019
Accepted: 12 March 2020
First Online: 26 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The University of British Columbia Clinical Research Ethics Board reviewed the study protocol and deemed it to be the evaluation of a quality improvement initiative and waived the need for informed consent. Joleen Wright, Director of Data Release Management provided access to the data.
: Not applicable.
: None of the authors have any competing interests. None of sponsors had any role in the evaluation design, data collection or processing, statistical analysis or preparation of the manuscript. Dr. Law received salary support through a Canada Research Chair and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award. Dr. Hohl was supported by a New Investigator grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and received support from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research at the time of the quality improvement project.