Resources
Members of the Medical Staff can find helpful links on this page to quality and safety resources, practitioner health collaboration and more.
Select a resource to view from the list below, or scroll down to view them all:
Recommendations for Dictation and Transcription
Physicians, nurse practitioners and others who dictate care reports are advised to dictate vital patient information at the beginning of dictations. This extra step prevents errors and delays in the flow of patient information and keeps patients safe.
It is recommended that clinicians say the following at the start of their dictation:
- The full name of the patient
- The patient’s medical record number
- The clinician’s location
- The date of the care event
- The first name, last name and speciality of any intended recipient(s)
For example: “Dr. John Doe dictating a (care event/work type) for Jane Smith, MRN 1234, seen on (date of care event). Copies to Dr. Tom Jones, (specialty and location), and Dr. Richard Smith, (speciality and location).”
Learn more in the
Saskatchewan Dictation Manual.
Tip:
Using the Fluency Mobile app on your smartphone is another way to reduce the chance of transcription delays and errors. Find out how to get this app and configure it for use in Saskatchewan by calling
eHealth Saskatchewan
at 1-888-316-7446.
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LINK (Leveraging Immediate Non-urgent Knowledge) is a
telephone consultation service to give primary care providers rapid access to
specialists to consult on complex but non-urgent patient care. The benefits of
LINK are that it:
- Supports patient-centred care by providing patients with access to specialist expertise within the context of a primary care visit. This helps avoid unnecessary referrals and reduce travel and cost for rural patients.
- Supports primary care providers to work to their full scope of practice and allows them to gain from the educational experience.
- Makes it easier for specialists to receive more appropriate referrals with relevant diagnostics.
- Makes more appropriate use of clinical resources (e.g., referrals, treatments, diagnostics and prescriptions).
The following specialties provide LINK services:
- Adult Psychiatry
- Child psychiatry
- HIV and HCV
- Nephrology
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Palliative Care (currently available 24/7)
- Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
- Urology
LINK is available from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday, excluding statutory holidays.
Call 1-844-855-LINK (5465) to speak with a
specialist.
To learn more about LINK and other referral-consultation
tools, click here.
For questions or comments, please email LINK@health.gov.sk.ca
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Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory
The Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory (RRPL), formerly the Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, works to identify, respond to, and prevent illness and disease in the province.
Learn more
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Spectrum
Spectrum is a novel, mobile application designed to help physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other health care professionals optimize antimicrobial prescribing and minimize antimicrobial resistance.
The Saskatoon version of the app offers more than 20 clinical guidelines and pathways, as well as customized and tailored information reflecting local resistance patterns in Saskatoon. Complex decision support integrated with evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines is now rapidly and easily accessible in your pocket.
The Saskatoon version of the app was developed by the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Saskatoon with expert physician and pharmacist input from the Antibiotic Usage Subcomittee. Funding was provided through a College of Medicine Research Award. Spectrum has been adopted by Alberta Health Services, Providence Health Care, Fraser Health, CHEO, IWK Health Centre, UCLA Health, Island Health and many others.
Download the app free of charge to your mobile device through the Apple App Store or Google Play.
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Immunization Infosheets
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Opioid Stewardship Program
The Opioid Stewardship Program supports clinicians and patients with evidence-based education on the appropriate prescribing of opioids as well as other, non-pharmaceutical alternatives.
To promote appropriate prescribing of opioids for chronic, non-cancer pain, we rely on peer-to-peer engagement from the pharmacist and physician positions in the Opioid Stewardship Program. This approach gives physicians the tools and knowledge to safely and effectively manage chronic pain patients in their own practice. Beyond the initial building of capacity in physician practice, the program continues to work on developing a pain pathway for frontline prescribers to guide their patients towards more individualized treatment.
Learn more about the Opioid Stewardship Program
Practitioner Resources