Setting the balance of care for older adults at risk of hospitalization and delayed discharge: A mixed-methods research protocol

• Kerry Kuluski,

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

  Affiliations Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6377-6653

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• Danielle Jacobson ,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: danielle.jacobson@thp.ca

  Affiliation Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7792-8099

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• Somayeh Ghazalbash,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Policy and Management Area, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Junhee Baek,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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• Laura Rosella,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Elizabeth Mansfield,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Abhimanyu Sud,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Humber River Health, North York, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8354-6153

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• Terence Tang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 6 Queen’s Park Crescent West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sara J. T. Guilcher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. T. Guilcher, Manaf Zargoush

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9552-9139

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• Manaf Zargoush

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. T. Guilcher, Manaf Zargoush

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Policy and Management Area, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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