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Action Items for Institutional Management and Decision Makers
CASCADES
This checklist provides actions that institutional management and decision makers can take to optimize the medication prescribed to patients to reduce the environmental, patient and institutional consequences of polypharmacy.
Checklist

Common prescribing cascades
CASCADES
This resource provides examples of common prescribing cascades, which occur when a drug is prescribed to manage the side effects of another drug.
Document
Patient Handouts to support deprescribing
This table provides links to patient handouts, with the number of pages listed, that can be accessed to support deprescribing of specific medications.
Patient resource

Inpatient provider-specific information: Trainee video
This trainee video provides an orientation for medical students and residents on inpatient climate conscious inhaler practices. Presented by Dr. Valeria Stoynova and Dr. Celia Culley.
Video

Environmental Impact Video
LEDEVOIR
In this environmental impact, physicians are calling on Ottawa to introduce regulations to replace the potent greenhouse gases contained in metered-dose inhalers.
Video

Safe Drug Disposal in Ontario Pamphlet
A comprehensive pamphlet providing detailed guidance on safe drug disposal methods, strategies, and participation in provincial take-back programs.
Pamphlet

The Critical Air Project: Climate Conscious Inpatient Inhaler Practices
This video introduces the upcoming Climate Conscious Inpatient Inhaler Practices playbook and explores the Critical Air Project. It features speakers Celia Culley and Valeria Stoynova, who discuss efforts to improve inhaler practices in inpatient settings with a focus on climate-conscious and sustainable care.
Webinar
Clinical Order Set Redesign: Clinical Order Set Before and After
Example clinical order set before and after planetary health lens. Original content by Island Health; Clinical review and local adaptation required before use at external health authorities.
Example

Hospital Formulary: Terbutaline formulary request assessment
Interior Health
Example of a British Columbia Health Authorities Pharmacy and Therapeutics Formulary Drive Review.
Example