Using Exploratory Trials to Identify Relevant Contexts and Mechanisms in Complex Electronic Health Interventions: Evaluating the Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Tool

Carolyn Steele Gray   ^{1, 2 *} , MA, PhD ;   Janelle Gravesande   ^{3 *} , MSc ;   Parminder Kaur Hans   ^{4 *} , MBA ;   Jason X Nie   ⁴ , MSc ;   Sarah Sharpe   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Mayura Loganathan   ^{6, 7 *} , MD, CCFP ;   Renee Lyons   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Cheryl Cott   ^{8 *} , PhD

¹ Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ School of Rehabilitation, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

⁴ Corporate Services, Trillium Health Partners, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ QoC Health Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Ray D Wolfe Department of Family Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally