Background In 2014, nursing home administration and government officials were facing
increasing public and media scrutiny around the variation of antipsychotic medication (APM) …

Background There has been growing evidence of increased harms from long-term and high-dose
use of opioids, including sleep apnea, hypogonadism, opioid hyperalgesia, …

Objective To update the 2015 clinical practice guideline and provide a simplified approach
to lipid management in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for primary care. …

Background: Academic detailing, an educational outreach service for family physicians, was
funded by the Ontario government to address gaps in opioid prescribing and pain …

Medications are the second largest and fastest growing health care cost in Canada. 1 In 2010,
there were 499.6 million prescriptions dispensed across Canada, representing a total of …

Alex Crawley ACPR Laura Murphy ACPR PharmD Loren Regier Please imagine the following
situation. You are a physician with a busy family medicine practice. Today one of your …

Older adults with diabetes who are otherwise healthy and who have considerable life
expectancy (more than 10 years) should generally receive diabetes care with goals and targets …

Improving prescribing practices and patient health outcomes requires not just abstract
knowledge about evidencebased practices but practical tools to support implementation. …

A 25-year-old white woman, AG, presents to a family practice clinic seeking a levonorgestrel
intrauterine device (IUD) for contraception. She has only used condoms in the past, but AG …

Mr JP, a 43-year-old chemical engineer, is a relatively new patient in your practice. He is
concerned about increasingly frequent episodes of “gout” over the past 6 months. He describes …