Virtual family physician care during COVID-19: a mixed methods study using health administrative data and qualitative interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid shift in primary health care from predominantly in-person to high volumes of virtual care. The pandemic afforded the opportunity to conduct a deep regional examination of virtual care by family physicians in London and Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada that would inform the foundation for virtual care in our region post-pandemic.

Objectives

(1) to determine volumes of in-person and virtual family physicians visits and characteristics of the family physicians and patients using them during the early COVID-19 pandemic; (2) to determine how virtual visit volumes changed over the pandemic, compared to in-person; and (3) to explore family physicians' experience in virtual visit adoption and implementation.

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SUBMITTER: Ryan BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9700898 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature