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The Opioid Tapering Template is designed to assist family physicians and primary care nurse practitioners on developing tapering plans with their patients and adjusting those plans as their patients’ needs change due to pain, function and withdrawal symptoms.

The Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Tool aims to guide primary care providers through the identification and management of individuals who have problems with opioid use. It includes a step-by-step approach for initiating and maintaining OAT with buprenorphine-naloxone.

The Osteoarthritis Tool was developed for primary care providers managing patients with new or recurrent joint pain consistent with osteoarthritis of the hip, knee or hand. This tool can help clinicians identify symptoms and provide evidence-based, goal-oriented non-pharmacological and pharmacological management while identifying triggers for investigations or referrals.

The Rule assists clinicians in assessing if radiography of the foot and ankle is required for adult patients presenting with blunt ankle trauma at health care facilities.

The Rule can help determine the need for radiographs in acute knee injuries. This screening tool offers a rapid and accurate way to avoid unnecessary imaging.

Poverty puts patients at higher risk for most chronic diseases, mental illnesses, and even accidents and trauma. The Tool directs providers to use key questions to assess their patients’ living situations and current benefits and includes links to key government and community resources to support positive interventions.

The Preconception Health Care Tool helps you assess the preconception health and risk factors for pregnancy of all patients of reproductive age. Use it over a series of visits to identify potential physical, genetic, psychosocial and environmental risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes. The Tool will guide you to help reduce those risks before conception through counselling, education and other interventions.

Nearly one in three (32%) Canadian children are at an unhealthy weight. Guide conversations about healthy lifestyle choices and goal-setting using the Preventing Childhood Obesity Tool with paediatric patients (2-17 years of age) and their families, irrespective of the patient’s weight