Strengthening Care for Children Using a Virtual Integrated General Practitioner–Pediatrician Model of Primary Care (SUSTAIN): Protocol for a Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Tammy Meyers Morris   ¹ , PhD ;   Harriet Hiscock   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Karen Wheeler   ¹ , BSc ;   Corin Miller   ¹ , FRACGP-RG ;   Nan Hu   ¹ , PhD ;   Shukri Hassan Shire   ¹ , MStats ;   Carmen Crespo-Gonzalez   ¹ , PhD ;   Susan Bullock   ¹ , MClinPsych ;   Natalie Taylor   ⁴ , PhD ;   Douglas Boyle   ⁵ , PhD ;   Lena Sanci   ⁵ , PhD ;   Kenny Lawson   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Louisa Adams   ⁸ , FRACP ;   Ken Peacock   ⁸ , FRACP ;   Michael Hodgins   ¹ , PhD ;   Annemarie Christie   ⁸ , MBBS ;   Raghu Lingam   ¹ , PhD

¹ Population Child Health Research Group, Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

² Health Services and Economics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

³ Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ Implementation to Impact, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

⁵ Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Translational Health Research Institute, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

⁷ Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

⁸ Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Sydney, Australia