Drug utilization patterns before and during COVID-19 pandemic in Manitoba, Canada: A population-based study

• Laila Aboulatta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Payam Peymani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Christine Vaccaro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Christine Leong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Kaarina Kowalec ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3928-9879

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• Joseph Delaney ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Jamie Falk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4029-320X

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• Silvia Alessi-Severini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Basma Aloud ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Sherif Eltonsy

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laila Aboulatta, Payam Peymani, Christine Vaccaro, Christine Leong, Kaarina Kowalec, Joseph Delaney, Jamie Falk, Silvia Alessi-Severini, Basma Aloud, Sherif Eltonsy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Sherif.Eltonsy@umanitoba.ca

  Affiliations College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, The Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5406

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