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Clinical Tools
Mississauga Halton Palliative Care Network offers the following resource links to valuable clinical tools to support you in the care and support of patients, their families, and caregivers.
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning
- Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE)
- Advance Care Planning Conversation Guide: Clinician Primer
- Advance Care Planning Workbooks and Quick Guides
- Person Centred Decision Making (PCDM): Advance Care Planning, Goals of Care Discussion and Health Care Consent Tool Kit
- Community Legal Education Ontario
- Consent & Capacity Board
- First Nations – Honouring the Choices of the People
- Living My Culture
- Making My Wishes Known
- Powers of Attorney Kit
- Speak up Ontario
- The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT)
Assessment Tools
Assessment Tools
- Clinical Frailty Scale
- Dementia and Palliative Care Toolkit for the Primary Care Practitioners
- Doloplus2 Scale - Pain Assessment for Cognitively Impaired
- Early Identification and Prognostic Indicator Guide
- Functional Independent Measure
- Glasgow Coma Scale
- Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care
- Long-Term Care Best Practices Toolkit (2nd ed.)
- Modified Rankin Scale
- Palliative Care Toolkit for Aboriginal Communities
- Palliative Care Toolbox
- PPS v2 (Developed by the Victoria Hospice Society)
- Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS)
- Riker Sedation Scale
- RNAO Clinical Best Practice Guidelines
- Symptom Assessment and Management Tools – Cancer Care Ontario
Symptom Management
Symptom Management
- Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) tool
- Helpful Drug Interaction Checker- Medscape
- Hospice Palliative Care Symptom Guidelines: Fraser Health Authority
- Improving Quality of Life for People Dying in Long Term Care Homes
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices
- Ontario College of Pharmacists
- Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary Comparative Drug Index
- Ontario Drug Benefit Program- Drug Coverage
- Palliative Care Toolbox
- Symptom Assessment and Management Tools - Cancer Care Ontario
Disease-Specific Services and Information
Disease-Specific Services and Information
- ALS Society Support Services in Ontario
- Alzheimer Society - Halton
- Alzheimer Society - Peel
- American Institute for Cancer Research
- Canadian AIDS Society
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Canadian Geriatrics Society
- Canadian Thoracic Society
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Cancer Care Ontario
- Dementia and Palliative Care Toolkit for the Primary Care Practitioner
- Health Quality Ontario: Quality Standard for Heart Failure
- Huntington Society of Canada
- Muslim Cancer Support Organization (MCSO)
- Ontario Hemophilia Society
- Ontario Renal Network
- Support Services ALS Society in Ontario
- Wellspring (for cancer patients)
- Wellspring Oakville
Grief & Bereavement
Grief & Bereavement
- Acclaim Health
- AIDS Bereavement and Resiliency of Ontario
- Bereaved Families of Ontario
- Bereaved Families of Ontario-Halton/Peel
- Bereavement Support Groups in Mississauga Halton
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Support Programs
- Dorothy Ley Hospice
- Grief and Bereavement in First Nations Communities
- Grief, Loss and Bereavement Guide
- Heart House Hospice
- Islamic Society of Peel
- Light House Program for Grieving Children
- Wellspring (for cancer patients)