Association between physician characteristics and practice-level uptake of paediatric virtual mental healthcare: a population-based study

Autor: Paul Kurdyak, Simone Vigod, Rachel Strauss, Astrid Guttmann, Eyal Cohen, Natasha Ruth Saunders, Jun Guan, Therese A Stukel, Alene Toulany, Longdi Fu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: BMJ Open, Vol 13, Iss 7 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070172
Popis: Objective To examine physician factors associated with practice-level uptake of virtual mental healthcare for children and adolescents.Design, setting and participants A population-based data linkage study of a cohort of all physicians (n=12 054) providing outpatient mental healthcare to children and adolescents (aged 3–17 years, n=303 185) in a single-payer provincial health system in Ontario, Canada from 1 July 2020 to 31 July 2021.Exposures Physician characteristics including gender, age, specialty, location of training, practice region, practice size and overall and mental health practice size.Main outcomes Practice-level proportion of outpatient virtual care provided: (1) mostly in-person (
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