Patients report high information coordination between rostered primary care physicians and specialists: A cross-sectional study

• Bahram Rahman ,

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

  * E-mail: rahmab1@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliations Physician and Provider Services Division, Ministry of Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3463-9492

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• Glenda Babe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Glenda Babe, Andrew P. Costa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Lauren E. Griffith ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LEG, DP, and LLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• David Price ,

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

  ¶‡ LEG, DP, and LLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations McMaster Family Health Team, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Medical School, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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• Lauren Lapointe-Shaw ,

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

  ¶‡ LEG, DP, and LLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University Health Network and Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Women’s College Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Andrew P. Costa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Glenda Babe, Andrew P. Costa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Integrated Care, St. Joseph’s Health System, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Schlegel Research Institute for Aging, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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