A Value-Based Comparison of the Management of Ambulatory Respiratory Diseases in Walk-in Clinics, Primary Care Practices, and Emergency Departments: Protocol for a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study

Simon Berthelot   ^{1, 2} , MSc, MD, FRCP, CCFP(EM) ;   Mylaine Breton   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Jason Robert Guertin   ^{1, 5} , PhD ;   Patrick Michel Archambault   ^{1, 2, 6, 7} , MSc, MD, FRCPC ;   Elyse Berger Pelletier   ⁸ , MD, FRCP ;   Danielle Blouin   ⁹ , PhD, MD, MHPE, FRCPC ;   Bjug Borgundvaag   ^{10, 11} , PhD, MD ;   Arnaud Duhoux   ¹² , PhD ;   Laurie Harvey Labbé   ¹ , BA ;   Maude Laberge   ¹³ , PhD ;   Philippe Lachapelle   ¹ , MSc ;   Lauren Lapointe-Shaw   ¹⁴ , PhD, MD, FRCPC ;   Géraldine Layani   ¹⁵ , MSc, MD ;   Gabrielle Lefebvre   ¹ , MSc ;   Myriam Mallet   ¹ , MA ;   Deborah Matthews   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   Kerry McBrien   ¹⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Shelley McLeod   ^{11, 18} , MSc, PhD ;   Eric Mercier   ² , MSc, MD, FRCP ;   Alexandre Messier   ¹⁵ , MD, CCFP(EM) ;   Lynne Moore   ^{1, 5} , PhD ;   Judy Morris   ^{15, 19} , MSc, MD, FRCP ;   Kathleen Morris   ²⁰ , MBA ;   Howard Ovens   ¹¹ , MD ;   Paul Pageau   ²¹ , MD, CCFP(EM) ;   Jean-Sébastien Paquette   ^{2, 6, 22} , MSc, MD ;   Jeffrey Perry   ^{21, 23} , MSc, MD, CCFP(EM) ;   Michael Schull   ²⁴ , MSc, MD ;   Mathieu Simon   ²⁵ , MD, FRCP ;   David Simonyan   ¹ , MSc ;   Henry Thomas Stelfox   ²⁶ , PhD, MD, FRCP, CAHS ;   Denis Talbot   ⁵ , PhD ;   Samuel Vaillancourt   ^{14, 27} , MD, CM, MPH, FRCP

¹ Axe Santé des populations et Pratiques optimales en santé, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

² Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

³ Department of Community Health sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Campus de Longueuil, Longueuil, QC, Canada

⁴ Centre de recherche Charles-Le Moyne - Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean sur les innovations en santé, Longueuil, QC, Canada

⁵ Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

⁶ VITAM - Centre de recherche en santé durable, Québec, QC, Canada

⁷ Centre de recherche du Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Chaudière-Appalaches, Lévis, QC, Canada

⁸ Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux, Gouvernement du Québec, Québec, QC, Canada

⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹² Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹³ Operations and Decision Systems Department, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

¹⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁵ Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

¹⁶ Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Government of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁷ Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

¹⁸ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁹ Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur-de-Montréal, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

²⁰ Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa, ON, Canada

²¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

²² Laboratoire ARIMED, GMF-U de Saint-Charles-Borromée, Québec, QC, Canada

²³ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

²⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

²⁵ Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada

²⁶ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

²⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada