Opioid Strategy

• Medical Mentoring for Addictions and Pain (available through the Ontario College of Family Physicians)
• Digital tools like eConsult and EMR dashboard for optimizing the use of your EMR and the data in it to understand current patterns of care.  Expert users of these tools are also available to help you through a Peer Leader Program (all available through OntarioMD)
• Safer Opioid Prescribing webinars and workshops (available through the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development)
• Quality Improvement Decision Support Specialists (QIDSS) and analytic support for Family Health Teams (available through the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario)
• Ontario’s Narcotics Strategy, stemming from the National Narcotics Monitoring Network, lets you see whether a patient is obtaining drugs from multiple providers (available through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care)
• New - Safer Opiods Prescribing Strategies, the third course is now available on Machealth. This 90-minute course is certified for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ credits and 1.5 MOC Section 1 hours for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Quality Standards outlining what quality care looks like for people with acute or chronic pain considering opioid therapy, and people with opioid use disorder (available through Health Quality Ontario; grounded in the 2017 Canadian Guideline for Opioids for Chronic Pain)

• A confidential report (My Practice: Primary Care) lets you see your own opioid prescribing patterns compared with the provincial average (available through Health Quality Ontario)
• One-on-one educational outreach visits (Academic Detailing) and access to clinical tools and supports focused on delivering providers with objective, balanced, evidence-informed information on best practice (available through the Centre for Effective Practice)
• Outreach to increase awareness of available supports and programs, and investments to increase access to addiction services (coordinated through the Local Health Integration Networks)