Tools for Healthcare Providers
This section includes some of the screening tools and point-of-care tools that have been developed by a variety of sources, including the Health Unit in partnership with community colleagues.
Point of Care Tools
Point-of-care tools synthesize current research and evidence into a single screening and intervention tool. These tools can assist healthcare providers to assess a patient’s health in a timely, comprehensive manner, and offer potential referral and intervention options, if appropriate.
Addiction
Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Protocol: Positioning and Latching
- Breastfeeding Protocol: Expressing, Collecting, and Storing of Human Milk
Immunization
- Publicly Funded Immunization Schedules for Ontario - 2022 (PDF)
- Guidance for Routine and Catch-Up Immunization Services - 2024 (10 pages) (PDF)
- SUMMARY: Publicly Funded immunization Schedules for Ontario - 2022 (6 pages) (PDF)
- SUMMARY: Infancy and Childhood Routine Immunization Schedule - 2020 (PDF)
- Ontario Publicly Funded Immunization Schedule Human Papilloma Virus (PDF)
- A Guide to Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Vaccines (PDF)
- A Guide to Tetanus-Containing Combination Vaccines (PDF)
- A Guide to Meningococcal Vaccines (PDF)
Lyme Disease
- Management of Tick Bites and Investigation of Early Localized Lyme Disease (PDF)
- Tick Identification and Testing FAQ
Nutrition
Rabies
Sexual Health
Screening Tools
Screening tools are important to a healthcare provider’s daily practice. Screening tools can assist in facilitating a conversation with a patient about a specific topic.
Substance Use
Alcohol:
Tobacco:
Date of creation: September 23, 2016
Last modified on: January 24, 2025
Last modified on: January 24, 2025