Problems in Coordinating and Accessing Primary Care for Attached and Unattached Patients Exacerbated During the COVID-19 Pandemic Year (the PUPPY Study): Protocol for a Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study

Emily Gard Marshall   ¹ , BA, MSc, PhD ;   Mylaine Breton   ² , PhD ;   Benoit Cossette   ² , PhD ;   Jennifer Isenor   ^{3, 4} , PharmD ;   Maria Mathews   ⁵ , PhD ;   Caitlyn Ayn   ¹ , MA ;   Mélanie Ann Smithman   ² , MSc ;   David Stock   ¹ , PhD ;   Eliot Frymire   ⁶ , MA ;   Lynn Edwards   ⁷ , MHSA ;   Michael Green   ^{6, 8, 9} , MD

¹ Primary Care Research Unit, Dalhousie Family Medicine, Halifax, NS, Canada

² Department of Community Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, QC, Canada

³ College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁴ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁵ Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

⁶ Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

⁷ Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁸ Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

⁹ School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada