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Clinical Care

This Plan section includes:

  • Information, guidance and tools for private physicians to help them plan, organize, manage and respond to the H1N1 outbreak;
  • Links to the most recent infection control guidelines for a variety of settings.
  • Framework for ethical decision-making; and,
  • Guidance to the health sector on approaches for managing acute care services, home and community care services and primary care during the H1N1 influenza outbreak;

The Primary Care link is the home to the new Provincial Health Officer’s H1N1 Website for Health Care Providers. There are pages for physicians, pharmacists and health care providers. Each page on the site is set up to serve as a single resource portal for information on the H1N1 pandemic influenza.

The physician page was created to support physician’s access to clinical guidelines, office management suggestions, links to vetted patient information resources and any pertinent billing information from the Medical Services Commission. Also included are "situation reports" from health authorities, including service bulletins describing any added or scaled back programs that may impact physicians’ community practices.

Plans and Guidelines

H1N1 Websites for Health Care Providers:

Community Physician Office Antiviral Treatment Guidelines (PDF 126K)

Testing Guidelines (PDF 142K)

Guidelines for Pandemic Influenza-related Office Management and Infection Control for Private Physicians
(PDF 1.1M)

Provincial Ethics Framework (PDF 5.0M)

Acute Care Guidelines and Tool Kit (PDF 235K)

Provincial Coordination of Critical Care Transfers (PDF 219K)

Home and Community Care (PDF 403K)

Antibiotic Therapy Guidelines (October 20, 2009) (PDF 185KB)

Small and Isolated Communities (PDF 319K)

Other Resources

Infection Control Guidelines for Acute Care Settings

Infection Control Guidelines for Long Term Care

Infection Control Guidelines for Pre-Hospital Care

Public Health Agency of Canada – Infection Control and Occupational Health Guidelines during Pandemic Influenza In Traditional and Non-Traditional Health Care Settings