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Adapting Our SCOPE: Lessons Learned from Spreading and Scaling Efforts to Integrate Care.

Abstract

SCOPE (Seamless Care Optimizing the Patient Experience) launched in 2012 to support primary care in downtown Toronto with live navigation and rapid access to acute and community care resources for primary care providers (PCPs) and their patients. Ten years later, over 1,800 PCPs across Ontario have signed up for SCOPE and over 48,000 interactions in the form of e-mail, fax, phone and secure messaging have been conducted. Case examples illustrate the ways in which SCOPE has been adapted across a range of Ontario Health Teams, including under-resourced, small urban and rural sites. Primary care engagement, change management strategies and flexibility to meet the individual needs of each site have been key factors in the successful spread and scale of SCOPE's services.

Authors

Mehrfar P; Martyn J; Laur C; Ivers N; Fernandes A; Bassi H; Alarakhia M; Alam N; Pariser P

Journal

Healthcare Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 50–58

Publisher

Longwoods Publishing

Publication Date

April 17, 2023

DOI

10.12927/hcq.2023.27051

ISSN

1710-2774

Labels

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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