PRACTICE QUALITY RESOURCES
Resources for individual and group practice
Canadian Medical Association
Centre for Personalized Education for Physicians
- Advanced Skills in Clinical-Patient Communication
- Improving Inter-Professional Communication: Working Effectively in Medical Teams
- PROBE: Ethics & Boundaries Program – Canada
- Medical Record Keeping Seminar
College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia
Institute for Healthcare Communication
MacEwan University
- Medical Office Chaperone (for staff working in physician offices)
Saegis (Member of the CMPA)
University of Calgary
University of Manitoba
University of Toronto
VitalSmarts®
CPSA Standards of Practice
- Alphabetical Index
- Advice to the Profession
- CPSA Referral Consultation standard& advice
- QURE Quality Referral Pocket Checklist
- Guide to enhancing referrals and consultations between physicians (CFPC)
- Referral and consultation process checklist (CMA)
- Physicians and nurse practitioners: Working collaboratively as independent health professionals (CMPA)
- The Most Responsible Physician (CMPA)
- Patient Records Management
- Patient Record Retention& Patient Record Content standards (CPSA)
- Checklist: Responsibilities of Custodians andHealth Information Act Administration (Alberta Health)
- EMR Information Sharing Agreement sample
- Information Sharing Agreement (PCN) template (AMA)
- Disclosure Agreement template(AMA)
- Electronic Records Handbook(CMPA)
- Health Information Act (HIA) Request to Access Health Information
- Information Manager Agreement (not available at this time)
- Alberta Medical Association: Privacy Agreements
Diagnostic Imaging Referral Guidelines for appropriate use of resources from the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) and the American College of Radiology (ACR):
Patient Satisfaction Questionnaires
Privacy Impact Assessment
- Privacy Impact Assessment Annotated Template
- Privacy Impact Assessment Resources
- Privacy Impact Assessment Update Self-Assessment
- OIPC Guideline: Electronic Health Record Systems
- Privacy Impact Assessment Requirements
- Netcare Expedited PIA Summary
- Netcare Expedited PIA Instructions for Alberta Netcare Portal
- HIA and PIA training (example)
Privacy Breach
Quality Initiatives and Additional Resources
- Antibiograms
- Bugs & Drugs
- Canadian Diabetes Association – Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Canadian Family Physician – Practice-Based Small Group Learning Programs
- Canadian Medical Association – DynaMed (All CMA members have access to DynaMed — point-of-care reference tool accessible online and through a mobile app)
- Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
- Canadian registry for hip replacements
- CPSA IPAC Program
- Health Information Act
- Hypertension Canada – CHEP Guidelines & Tools
- Lexicomp – Lexicomp (requires password)
- Qx MD – QxMD Clinical calculator and decision support tool for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 10, and web, freely available to the medical community
- Society of Obstetricis & Gynaecologists of Canada – Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Therapeutic Choices
- Up-To-Date