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Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on primary care using real world data: focus mental health

  • Funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
  • Total publications:10 publications

Grant number: 173094

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2020

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $153,000

  • Funder

    Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

  • Principal Investigator

    Karen Tu

  • Research Location

    Australia, Canada
    …

  • Lead Research Institution

    North York General Hospital

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Indirect health impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    Not applicable

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The spread of the COVID-19 virus has created havoc in Canada and around the world. Many aspects of all of our lives have been impacted by this pandemic especially the mental health in our populations. Family medicine is the cornerstone of primary care in our healthcare system in Canada. This team multidisciplinary team of investigators will use family physician electronic medical record data or health claims data to measure and evaluate the impact of this pandemic on patients mental health and addictions. In addition, we will compare the mental health impact of this pandemic on our patients in Canada to the experiences in other countries through the INTernational ConsoRtium of Primary Care BIg Data Researchers (INTRePID). INTRePID includes family physician researchers in Australia, Canada, China, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, UK and US with access to data on over 85 million patients worldwide.

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Patient visits and prescriptions for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from 2017-2021: Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in primary care.

Variation in human functional eccrine gland density and its implications for the evolution of human sweating.

Structural diversity of the coenzyme methylofuran and identification of enzymes for the biosynthesis of its polyglutamate side chain.

Methanol-dependent Escherichia coli strains with a complete ribulose monophosphate cycle.

Import of Aspartate and Malate by DcuABC Drives H2/Fumarate Respiration to Promote Initial Salmonella Gut-Lumen Colonization in Mice.

Untargeted metabolomics links glutathione to bacterial cell cycle progression.

Methylofuran is a prosthetic group of the formyltransferase/hydrolase complex and shuttles one-carbon units between two active sites.

Use of rare-earth elements in the phyllosphere colonizer Methylobacterium extorquens PA1.

Methanol-essential growth of Escherichia coli.