Remote Follow-up of Self-isolating Patients With COVID-19 Using a Patient Portal: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pilot Study (Opal-COVID Study)

David Lessard   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Kim Engler   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Yuanchao Ma   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MSc ;   Adriana Rodriguez Cruz   ^{1, 2, 3, 5} , PhD ;   Serge Vicente   ^{2, 6} , PhD ;   Opal-COVID-19 Patient Expert Committee   ^{2 *} ;   Nadine Kronfli   ^{1, 3} , MD ;   Sapha Barkati   ³ , MD ;   Marie-Josée Brouillette   ^{3, 7} , MD ;   Joseph Cox   ³ , MD ;   John Kildea   ⁸ , PhD ;   Tarek Hijal   ⁹ , MD ;   Marie-Pascale Pomey   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Susan J Bartlett   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Jamil Asselah   ¹² , MD ;   Bertrand Lebouché   ^{1, 2, 3, 5} , MD, PhD

¹ Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Centre for Outcomes Research & Evaluation, Montreal, QC, Canada

² See Acknowledgments, Montreal, QC, Canada

³ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Chronic Viral Illness Service, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁵ Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁶ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁷ Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁸ Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁹ Department of Radiation Oncology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹⁰ Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹¹ Department of Medicine, Divisions of Experimental Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, Respiratory Medicine, and Rheumatology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹² Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

*these authors contributed equally