Virtual care use during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on healthcare utilization in patients with chronic disease: A population-based repeated cross-sectional study

• Vess Stamenova ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vess.stamenova@wchospital.ca

  Affiliation Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3252-7766

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• Cherry Chu,

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

  Affiliation Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Andrea Pang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jiming Fang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ahmad Shakeri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Peter Cram,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Onil Bhattacharyya,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• R. Sacha Bhatia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Mina Tadrous

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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