All Resources

Environmental Sustainability in Pharmacy: Approaches from Canadian Leaders
In this video, Canadian leaders discuss approaches to environmental sustainability in Pharmacy. Hosted by Fiona Miller, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, speakers include: Shellyza Sajwani, The Ottawa Hospital, Celia Culley, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Terri Drover, Health Products Stewardship Association, Tarek Hussein, Weller Pharmacy.
Webinar

Hospital Pharmacies and the Climate Crisis
This video features the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, PEACH Health Ontario, and CASCADES welcoming Dr. Shellyza Moledina Sajwani, who provides an overview of the relevance of climate change to pharmacy practice. It focuses on practical, actionable objectives that can be implemented within hospital pharmacy settings, using the Ottawa Hospital Pharmacy Environmental Stewardship Committee as an example of environmental stewardship in practice.
Webinar

Inpatient provider-specific information: Respiratory Therapists poster
Critical Air Project
A poster on how respiratory therapists can fight climate change and what they can do.
Poster

Action Items for Institutional Healthcare Providers
CASCADES
This checklist provides actions that institutional healthcare providers can take to optimize the medication prescribed to patients to reduce the environmental, patient and institutional consequences of polypharmacy.
Checklist

Action Items for DUE Individuals and Teams
CASCADES
This checklist provides actions that drug use evaluation (DUE) individuals or teams can take to optimize the medication prescribed to patients to reduce the environmental, patient and institutional consequences of polypharmacy.
Checklist
Safe Drug Disposal in Ontario Poster
A quick reference guide for staff and patients, outlining a safe, responsible, and environmentally conscious methods for drug disposal and highlighting local take-back programs.
Poster

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
Resource Tool Box
This tool box provides useful resources and tools that can be accessed to support medication optimization
Document