4. Mental health and addictions
- Date: 2024-10-25
- Concurrent Session: Concurrent Session D
- Time: 8:45- 9:30 am
- Room:
- Style: Workshop (session is structure for interaction and/or hands-on learning opportunities)
- Focus: Balance between both (e.g. Presentation of a best-practice guideline that combines research evidence, policy issues and practical steps for implementation)
- Target Audience: Leadership (ED, clinical lead, board chair, board member, etc.) Clinical providers, Administrative staff, Representatives of stakeholder/partner organizations
Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn:
- Explore emerging clinical decision-support tools to enhance day-to-day clinical decision making as it relates to mental health in primary care through a hands-on demonstration
- Describe the purpose and objectives of the Evidence2Practice Ontario program’s Anxiety Disorders and Major Depression Tool for primary care.
- Describe the early lessons learned from the initial implementation phase of the Evidence2Practice Ontario program’s Anxiety Disorders and Major Depression Tool.
Summary/Abstract:
In this session, participants will take part in an instructional demonstration and overview of the Evidence2Practice (E2P) Ontario Anxiety Disorders and Major Depression (A&D) tool for primary care. A&D are two of the most common mental health conditions and their management is recognized as a key challenge for the healthcare system. The implementation of robust clinical decision-support tools into frontline systems provides an effective mechanism to alleviate these challenges, enhance clinician experience, and improve patient care. Recognizing this, the E2P program, using Ontario Health’s A&D Quality Standards as a framework, developed a digital decision-support tool to enable clinicians to provide more consistent, patient-centred care. The tool was developed with input and support from topic experts and the Centre of Excellence for Mental Health and Addictions and is specifically designed for use by primary care clinicians within the province of Ontario. The E2P A&D tool supports clinicians in early identification, comprehensive assessment, and timely diagnostic clarifications. It embeds first-line pharmacological treatment and adjunctive therapies to support prescribing and monitoring response to optimize therapies. It facilitates access to non-pharmacological treatment using a shared decision-making approach between patients and clinicians. Patient self-management and monitoring is supported within the tool through resources on education and navigation of the mental health system including accessible and appropriate services and supports. The tool aims to reduce health system burden by standardizing clinical processes and decreasing variations in clinical outcomes, reducing costs to healthcare systems, addressing adoption barriers and challenges, and improving patient care.
Presenter:
- David Kaplan MD MSc CCFP FCFP, Family Physician, North York Family Health Team Ontario Health
- Kieran Picavet Change Management Lead eHealth Centre of Excellence
- Angela Coderre-Ball PhD, Program Manager Centre for Effective Practice