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Shifts in office and virtual primary care during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

Richard H. Glazier, Michael E. Green, Fangyun C. Wu, Eliot Frymire, Alexander Kopp and Tara Kiran
CMAJ February 08, 2021 193 (6) E200-E210; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.202303
Richard H. Glazier
ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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Michael E. Green
ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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Fangyun C. Wu
ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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Eliot Frymire
ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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Alexander Kopp
ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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Tara Kiran
ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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vol. 193 no. 6 E200-E210
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.202303
PubMed 
33558406
History 
  • Accepted December 23, 2020
  • Published online February 8, 2021.
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© 2021 Joule Inc. or its licensors This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original publication is properly cited, the use is noncommercial (i.e., research or educational use), and no modifications or adaptations are made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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  1. Richard H. Glazier, MD MPH,
  2. Michael E. Green, MD MPH,
  3. Fangyun C. Wu, MSc MAcc,
  4. Eliot Frymire, MA,
  5. Alexander Kopp, BA,
  6. Tara Kiran, MD MSc
  1. ICES Central (Glazier, Wu, Kopp, Kiran); Primary Care and Health Systems (Glazier, Kiran, Kopp); St. Michael’s Hospital Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Glazier, Kiran), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, and Health Services and Policy Research Institute (Green), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queen’s University, and ICES Queen’s (Frymire), Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Glazier, Kiran), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
  1. Correspondence to: Richard Glazier, rick.glazier{at}ices.on.ca
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