Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Adoption of Virtual Care in General Practice in 20 Countries (inSIGHT): Protocol and Rationale Study

Ana Luísa Neves   ¹ , MBChB, MSc, PhD ;   Edmond Li   ¹ , MB BCh BAO, MPH ;   Alice Serafini   ² , MD ;   Geronimo Jimenez   ^{3, 4} , MA, PhD ;   Heidrun Lingner   ⁵ , MPH, MD ;   Tuomas H Koskela   ⁶ , MA, PhD ;   Robert D Hoffman   ⁷ , BSc, MD ;   Claire Collins   ⁸ , DipStats, BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD ;   Davorina Petek   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Ana Claveria   ^{10, 11} , MD, PhD, MPH ;   Rosy Tsopra   ^{12, 13} , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Greg Irving   ¹⁴ , MA, MSc, MPH, PhD ;   Gustavo Gusso   ¹⁵ , MD, MClSc, PhD ;   Braden Gregory O’Neill   ¹⁶ , MD, DPhil ;   Kyle Hoedebecke   ¹⁷ , MD, MBA, MPA, MSL ;   Sandra Milena Espitia   ¹⁸ , MD ;   Mehmet Ungan   ¹⁹ , MD ;   Katarzyna Nessler   ²⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Vanja Lazic   ²¹ , MD, MSc ;   Liliana Laranjo   ^{22, 23} , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Ensieh Memarian   ^{24, 25} , MD, PhD ;   Maria Jose Fernandez   ^{11, 26} , MD, PhD ;   Saira Ghafur   ¹ , MBChB, MSc ;   Gianluca Fontana   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Azeem Majeed   ²⁷ , MD ;   Josip Car   ^{3, 27} , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Ara Darzi   ¹ , PC, KBE, FRS, FMEDSCI, HONFRENG

¹ Institute of Global Health Innovation, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

² Local Health Authority of Modena, Modena, Italy

³ Center for Population Health Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

⁴ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

⁵ Center for Public Health and Healthcare, German Center for Lung Research (DZL) / BREATH Hannover, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

⁶ Department of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

⁷ Department of Family Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

⁸ Irish College of General Practitioners, Dublin, Ireland

⁹ Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

¹⁰ Primary Care Research Unit, Vigo Health Area, Vigo, Spain

¹¹ Galicia South Health Research Institute, Vigo, Spain

¹² Information Sciences to Support Personalized Medicine, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Université de Paris, Paris, France

¹³ Department of Medical Informatics, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

¹⁴ Health Research Institute, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom

¹⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

¹⁶ MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁷ Department of Utilization Management, Oscar Health, Dallas, TX, United States

¹⁸ Colombian Society of Family Medicine, Bogotá, Colombia

¹⁹ Department of Family Medicine, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

²⁰ Department of Family Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

²¹ Health Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

²² Westmead Applied Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

²³ Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

²⁴ Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

²⁵ Internal Medicine and Epidemiology Research Group, Skane University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

²⁶ Leiro Health Center, Leiro, Spain

²⁷ Department of Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom