Substance-Related Acute Toxicity Deaths in Canada From 2016 to 2017: Protocol for a Retrospective Chart Review Study of Coroner and Medical Examiner Files

Jenny Rotondo   ¹ , MHSc ;   Amanda VanSteelandt   ¹ , PhD ;   Fiona Kouyoumdjian   ² , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Matthew J Bowes   ³ , MD ;   Tanya Kakkar   ¹ , MPH ;   Graham Jones   ⁴ , PhD ;   Brandi Abele   ⁵ , Addictions Counsellor Diploma ;   Regan Murray   ⁶ , MPH ;   Emily Schleihauf   ^{3, 7} , MAE ;   Jessica Halverson   ⁸ , MPH, MSW ;   Jennifer Leason   ⁹ , PhD ;   Dirk Huyer   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Beth Jackson   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Songul Bozat-Emre   ^{12, 13} , PhD ;   Devanshi Shah   ¹ , MPH ;   Erin E Rees   ¹⁴ , PhD

¹ Substance-Related Harms Division, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

² Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service, Department of Justice, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁵ Board of Directors, Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

⁶ Collaboration on Death Investigation Data, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷ Canadian Public Health Service, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁸ Migration Health Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁹ Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

¹⁰ Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Health Equity Policy Division, Strategic Policy Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹² Provincial Information Management and Analytics, Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

¹³ Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

¹⁴ Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada