Winget, Marcy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5893-280X
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Yuan, Yan
McBride, Mary L.
Kendell, Cynthia
Decker, Kathleen M.
Grunfeld, Eva
Groome, Patti A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (128272)
Article History
Received: 23 May 2019
Accepted: 3 December 2019
First Online: 4 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: Research ethics boards and privacy committees approved the study and data stewards approved data access in each province. Data sharing across provinces was not permitted by the provincial data stewards; therefore, distributed data analyses were conducted by the respective provincial teams. Data were linked at the individual level in each province through an encrypted individual health insurance number. Quality assurance and cross checks were performed on datasets during and after data linkage to ensure accuracy and completeness. None of the databases or datasets used in the study are publicly available.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.