Reducing barriers to accessing administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for research

Andrew D McRae1, Patrick Archambault2, Patrick Fok2

  • 1Departments of Emergency Medicine and Community Health Sciences (McRae), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Departments of Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (Archambault), Université Laval, Québec, Que.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Fok, Wiemer), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Division of Emergency Medicine (Morrison), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Health Law Institute (Herder), Schulich School of Law; Department of Pharmacology (Herder), Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. amcrae@ucalgary.ca.

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