1 Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2 ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada.
3 Division of General Surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
4 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
5 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
6 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Kidney Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
7 Canadian Institute of Health Information, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
8 Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Received 20 January 2022. Revision received 7 June 2022.
Accepted 8 June 2022.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
This study was supported by a CIHR project grant (420142).
D.G., S.J.K., and N.N.B. were involved in conception of the work. D.G., S.A.A., R.S., and A.C. were involved in data acquisition. D.G., S.A.A., J.N., R.S., A.C., and R.S. were involved in data analysis and interpretation. D.G., S.A.A., J.N., S.J.K., and N.N.B. were involved in drafting of the manuscript. All authors were involved in the final approval of the manuscript.
This study was supported by ICES, which is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Long-Term Care. The opinions, results, and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES, the Ministry of Health or Ministry of Long-Term Care is intended or should be inferred. Parts of this material are based on data and/or information compiled and provided by CIHI. However, the analyses, conclusions, opinions, and statements expressed in the material are those of the author(s), and not necessarily those of CIHI. The dataset from this study is held securely in coded form at ICES. Although legal data sharing agreements between ICES and data providers (eg, healthcare organizations and government) prohibit ICES from making the dataset publicly available, access may be granted to those who meet pre-specified criteria for confidential access, available at www.ices. on.ca/DAS (email: [email protected]). The full dataset creation plan and underlying analytic code are available from the authors upon request, understanding that the computer programs may rely upon coding templates or macros that are unique to ICES and are therefore either inaccessible or may require modification.
ICES is a prescribed entity under Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). Section 45 of PHIPA authorizes ICES to collect personal health information, without consent, for the purpose of analysis or compiling statistical information with respect to the management of, evaluation or monitoring of, the allocation of resources to or planning for all or part of the health system. Projects that use data collected by ICES under section 45 of PHIPA, and use no other data, are exempt from REB review. The use of the data in this project is authorized under section 45 and approved by ICES’ Privacy and Legal Office.
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Correspondence: David Gomez, MD, PhD, St Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond St, Donnelly Wing, Room 3-071, Toronto, ON M5B1W8, Canada. ([email protected]).
