Quality Standard: Transitions Between Hospital and Home
This quality standard addresses care for people of all ages transitioning (moving) between hospital and home after a hospital admission. It focuses on people who have been admitted as inpatients and who require ongoing coordinated follow-up medical care, including medication and opioid review and support, after discharge.
Share its accompanying patient guide with your patients to help them ask informed questions about their transition plan, including getting a written transition plan that includes information about taking their medications safely.
Quality Standard: Opioid Prescribing for Acute Pain
Learn more about opioid prescribing for acute pain using this quality standard produced by Ontario Health in consultation with clinical experts and patients. It outlines what high-quality care looks like for clinicians when they’re prescribing opioids and is based on the best evidence.
Share its accompanying patient guide with your patients to help them ask informed questions about opioid prescribing and additional techniques they can use to help manage their pain post-surgery.
NEW Quality Standard: Delirium
3 out of 4 older people may experience delirium after surgery — a sudden change in how someone thinks, acts or understands what’s happening to them. This new quality standard outlines what quality care looks like for delirium and is based on the best evidence.
Share its accompanying patient guide with your patients to help them ask informed questions about managing delirium after surgery.
MyPractice Report: General Surgery
General surgeons who perform appendectomies, cholecystectomies, and select hernia repairs can sign up to receive a confidential practice report that offers personalized data on your opioid prescribing patterns in relation to your peers. Suggestions and tools to support quality improvement efforts are also included.
MyPractice Report: Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic surgeons who perform hip and knee replacements can sign up to receive a confidential practice report that includes personalized data on your opioid prescribing patterns, along with suggestions to help improve care for your patients.
Quality Based Procedure: Cancer Surgery
A clinical handbook with best practice recommendations and an evidence-based framework for cancer surgery developed by the Ministry of Health with clinical advice from Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario).
Quality Based Procedure: Hysterectomy
A clinical handbook with best practice recommendations and an evidence-based framework for cancer surgery developed by the Ministry of Health with clinical advice from Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario).
Local Initiatives
Many organizations and hospitals are already taking steps to implement Enhanced Recovery After Surgery best practices and educate their patients and other health care providers about how they’re enhancing care before, during and after surgery.
If you’re a member of the Ontario Surgical Quality Improvement Network, you’ve been receiving updates about these local initiatives through the Surgical Network’s Community of Practice.
If you’re not a member, but are interested in learning more about local initiatives, email ONSQIN@ontariohealth.ca.