Ifran Dhalla, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Ifran Dhalla, St. Michael's Hospital

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A virtual ward, a new model of care that provides support to high-risk and complex patients in the community for a few weeks after discharge from hospital, did not prevent hospital readmissions as hoped in a clinical trial in Toronto led by Dr. Irfan Dhalla, a physician at St. Michael's Hospital.

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