Greiver, Michelle
Kalia, Sumeet
Moineddin, Rahim
Chen, Simon
Duchen, Raquel
Rigobon, Alanna
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research chronic disease network grant under the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SCA 145101)
Article History
Received: 5 June 2019
Accepted: 15 April 2020
First Online: 1 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Board at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, ON, Canada. We received administrative permission from ICES for the analysis. ICES is a prescribed entity under section 45 of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act. Section 45 authorizes ICES to collect personal health information, without consent, for the purposes of analysis and compiling statistical information about the health system.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.