Evans, Andrea
Mahar, Alyson L.
Deb, Bhumika
Boblitz, Alexa
Brownell, Marni
Guttmann, Astrid
Stukel, Therese A.
Cohen, Eyal
Sarkar, Joykrishna
Eze, Nkiruka
Katz, Alan
Raveendran, Tharani
Saunders, Natasha
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (VR4—172730)
Hospital for Sick Children (Creative Professional Activity Grant)
Article History
Received: 28 October 2022
Accepted: 1 June 2023
First Online: 13 July 2023
Declarations
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: All Ontario datasets were linked and analyzed at ICES, an independent, non-profit research institute whose legal status under Ontario’s health information privacy law allows it to collect and analyze health care and demographic data, without consent, for health system evaluation and improvement. The use of data in this project was authorized under section 45 of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, which does not require review by a Research Ethics Board. Ethics approval for this study was granted by the University of Manitoba Health Research Ethics Board (HS24226 (H2020:397)) and was reviewed for data privacy and approved by the Government of Manitoba’s Health Information and Privacy Committee (File No. 2020/2021-34).
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: See funding section. In addition, Astrid Guttmann holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. All decisions regarding study design, publication, and data analysis were made independent of the funding agencies.