Santiago de Araújo Pio, Carolina
Gagliardi, Anna
Suskin, Neville
Ahmad, Farah
Grace, Sherry L. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7063-3610
Article History
Received: 2 December 2019
Accepted: 3 August 2020
First Online: 20 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: On the basis of the A pRoject Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI; ExternalRef removed) tool, an ethics waiver was granted by the University Health Network research ethics board, and then York University’s Office of Research Ethics, as this was a quality improvement initiative. Procedures outlined to minimize and mitigate ethical risks (e.g., privacy / confidentiality; data storage /security; informed consent) were strictly followed. All HCPs voluntarily agreed to participate and verbal consent was obtained. Written consent was not required by the ethics board considering also participants were providers and that the project was minimal risk. All patients observed also voluntarily agreed to participation, after the purpose of the observation was explained to them (except we focused on the full discharge discussion, rather than CR specifically), and they remained anonymous.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests related to this study.