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Family Physicians Stopping Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada

Tara Kiran, Michael E. Green, C. Fangyun Wu, Alexander Kopp, Lidija Latifovic, Eliot Frymire, Rahim Moineddin and Richard H. Glazier
The Annals of Family Medicine September 2022, 20 (5) 460-463; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2865
Tara Kiran
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3ICES Central, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MD, MSc
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  • For correspondence: tara.kiran@utoronto.ca
Michael E. Green
5Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
6Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
7ICES Queens, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
MD, MPH
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C. Fangyun Wu
3ICES Central, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Alexander Kopp
3ICES Central, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BA
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Lidija Latifovic
2MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Eliot Frymire
6Health Services and Policy Research Institute, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
7ICES Queens, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
MA
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Rahim Moineddin
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3ICES Central, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Richard H. Glazier
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3ICES Central, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MD, MPH
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SUPPLEMENTAL DATA IN PDF FILE BELOW

Supplemental Figure 1. Primary care visits December 31, 2019 to September 29, 2020 compared to the same period in 2019 stratified by type of visit (office, virtual, home).
Supplemental Figure 2. Histogram of the number of physicians by the ration of total visits during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to September 2020) to total visits during the same time period in 2019.
Supplemental Figure 3.
Variation within and between patient enrollment models in the ratio of total visits during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to September 2020) tot total visits during the same time period in 2019.
Supplemental Figure 4. Percentage of all family physicians within a sub-region who had no patient visits between March 11, 2020 and September 29, 2020.
Supplemental Figure 5. Percentage of family physicians who were actively practicing from January to March but who had primary care visits between April and September in the given year, 2010-2020.

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