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While this shift was part of broader public health measures and an acknowledgment of patient and societal concerns, it also represented a change in care modalities that had the potential to affect the quality of care provided, as well as short- and long-term patient outcomes. While public policy decisions were being made to moderate the use of virtual care at the end of the declared pandemic, a thorough analysis of short-term patient outcomes was needed to quantify the impact of virtual care on the population of Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, almost overnight, the paradigm for healthcare interactions changed in Ontario. To limit person-to-person transmission of COVID-19, the norm of in-person interactions shifted to virtual care. While this shift was part of broader public health measures and an acknowledgment of patient and societal concerns, it also represented a change in care modalities that had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[20,39,35],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-17046","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry","topic-health-and-health-care-inequality","topic-infectious-diseases","topic-public-health"],"acf":{"citation":"Mondoux S, Battaglia F, Gayowsky A, Clayton N, Langmann C, Miller P, Pardhan A, Mathews J, Drossos A, Grewal K. <em>Healthc Q<\/em>. 2023; 26(3):31-6. 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