Healthcare Professional Resources
For information purposes only
QT Prolongation
A pdf with List of Drugs associated with QT published by www.cardiacbc.ca, Information on some reported causes and potentiators of the Long QT syndrome from uptodate.
Diabetes Canada
Healthcare Provider tools from Diabetes Canada (Screening and diagnosis of type 2, Algorithm, Targets, Therapies, and more).
Dyslipidemia Canada
Get access to latest guidelines and recommendations on lipids from CCS (POCKET GUIDE: 2021 Dyslipidemia Guidelines, INFOGRAPHIC: The Portfolio Diet, etc.
Framingham Risk Score
Online calculator available by ubc.ca: Web CardioRisk (FRS Score Calculator), and pdf available by Canadian Cardiovascular Society FRS Score PDF.
Canadian Cardiovascular Society
Guidelines for Peripheral Arterial Disease (2022), Heart Failure – Reduced EF (2021), Heart Failure (2020), Atrial Fibrillation (2020), etc.
Hypertension Canada
Guidelines from Hypertension Canada (hypertension.ca).
Mental Health Resources
Click here to access each tool/resource: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) - CAMH, Canadian Guidelines for Depression Among Older Adults (ccsmh.ca) and CAMH (Professionals).
Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation Guideline from Smoke-free.ca, Subpopulations Specific Guidelines from camh.ca, Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence.
Important links
- Alzheimer Society
- Arthritis Society
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation
- Food Allergy Canada
- Thyroid Foundation of Canada
- Canadian Pharmacists Association
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Consumers and Patients
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Choosing Wisely Canada – Events
- Choosing Wisely Canada – Patient Materials
- FamilyDoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- HealthLink BC
- Health Canada
- Healthy Canadians
- MedlinePlus
- MyHealth Alberta
- NIH Health Information
- Patient UK
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- PubMed Health