The OPEN Interactive Atlas of Professional Pharmacist Services provides summaries of trends and regional differences in indicators of health or health care delivery by visualizing the delivery of pharmacy services across the province.

The role and scope of pharmacists within Canada has broadened to provide a more effective platform to contribute to outcomes-driven medication management. Community pharmacists are among the most accessible health care providers within the health care system and offer a growing list of professional pharmacy services.

This program is led by Suzanne Cadarette at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. For more information about this, please contact s.cadarette@utoronto.ca.
 


Since 2007, the government of Ontario has leveraged community pharmacist expertise in medication management by introducing and remunerating community pharmacies for the following professional pharmacist services:

  • MedsCheck programs (Annual, Diabetes, Home, Long-Term Care);
  • Pharmaceutical Opinion program;
  • Pharmacy smoking cessation program; and
  • Administering influenza immunizations

Three main indicators were chosen and are represented in the interactive tool as distinct tabs for each service.

  1. Trends: trends in number of monthly claims (including by region, type of service and outcome).
  2. Age and Sex: crude counts and rates by age-group and sex.
  3. Maps: choropleth maps representing regional summaries of standardized rates.

    MedsCheck Programs
    Influenza Immunizations
    Pharmaceutical Opinion Services
    Smoking Cessation


Knowledge Mobilization Activities:

Peer-reviewed Publications
  1. Rzepka AM, Wong L, Choudhry M, Sproule BA, He N, Cadarette SM. The Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network of smoking cessation services. Can Pharm J (Ott) 2022; 20;155:194-199.
     
  2. Gan Q, Loi A, Chaudhry M, He N, Shakeri A, Dolovich L, Cadarette SM. The Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network Atlas of MedsCheck services. Can Pharm J (Ott) 2022; 155:151-156.
     
  3. Chaudhry M, He N, Waite NM, Houle SKD, Kwong J, Cadarette SM. The Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network atlas of community pharmacy immunization services. Can Pharm J (Ott) 2021; 154:305-311.
     
  4. Cadarette SM, He N, Chaudhry M, Dolovich L. The Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network interactive atlas of professional pharmacist services. Can Pharm J (Ott) 2021; 154:153-159.
     
  5. Shakeri A, Dolovich L, MacCallum L, Gamble JM, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Impact of the 2016 policy change on the delivery of MedsCheck services in Ontario: an interrupted time-series analysis. Pharmacy 2019; 7:E115. [A Shakeri awarded 2020 Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada / Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy Graduate Student Award for Pharmacy Practice Research (best paper)]
Conference Presentations - International
  1. Shakeri A, Gamble JM, MacCallum L, Dolovich L, He N, Cadarette SM. Impact of policy changes on the delivery of community medication review services among adults with diabetes in Ontario [abstract]. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2020; 29(S3):66. Poster presentation, International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management, September 2020, Virtual.
     
  2. Shakeri A, Dolovich L, MacCallum L, Gamble JM, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Impact of the October 2016 policy change on the delivery of MedsCheck Annual and MedsCheck Diabetes services in Ontario community pharmacies [abstract]. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2019; 28(S2):528. Poster presentation, International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management, August 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Conference Presentations - National/Local
  1. Ranjit-Cadarette S, Chaudhry M, Tadrous M, Choi Y, Cadarette SM. MedsCheck service delivery after the 2016 policy changes and COVID-19 pandemic: descriptive analysis through to March 2023 [abstract]. Canadian Pharmacists Journal (Ott), 2024; 157 (1): S41. Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, October 2023, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  2. Shakeri A, Gamble JM, MacCallum L, Dolovich L, Cadarette SM. Impact of policy changes on utilization of community medication review services in Ontario among people living with diabetes [abstract]. J Popul Ther Clin Pharmacol; 27(4):e49. Poster presentation, Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics Annual Conference, October 2020, Virtual.
     
  3. Chaudhry M, Waite NM, Houle SKD, Kwong J, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Community pharmacy influenza immunization services in Ontario [abstract]. Can Pharm J 2019; 152(5):S14. Poster presentation, Pharmacy Experience Pharmacie, June 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  4. Gan Q, Chaudhry M, Shakeri A, Dolovich L, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. MedsCheck at Home services in Ontario [abstract]. Can Pharm J 2019; S43. Oral presentation, Pharmacy Experience Pharmacie, June 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  5. He N, Dolovich L, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Pharmaceutical Opinion services in Ontario [abstract]. Can Pharm J 2019; 152(5):S32. Poster presentation, Pharmacy Experience Pharmacie, June 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  6. Loi A, He N, Shakeri A, Dolovich L, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. MedsCheck Long-Term Care in Ontario [abstract]. Can Pharm J 2019; 152(5):S29. Poster presentation, Pharmacy Experience Pharmacie, June 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  7. Shakeri A, Dolovich L, MacCallum L, Gamble JM, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Impact of the October 2016 policy change on the delivery of MedsCheck Annual and MedsCheck Diabetes services in Ontario community pharmacies [abstract]. Can Pharm J 2019; 152(5):S26. Poster presentation, Pharmacy Experience Pharmacie, June 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  8. Wong L, Sproule BA, Guilcher SJ, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Pharmacy smoking cessation services in Ontario [abstract]. Can Pharm J 2019; 152(5):S37. Poster presentation, Pharmacy Experience Pharmacie, June 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  9. Cadarette SM, Chaudhry M, He N, Shakeri A, Wong L, Gan Q, Loi A, Zhou L, Dolovich L. Use of professional pharmacy services differs across Ontario: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Oral presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  10. Chaudhry M, Waite NM, Houle SKD, Kwong J, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Community pharmacy influenza immunization services in Ontario: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Poster presentation, presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  11. Gan Q, Chaudhry M, Shakeri A, Dolovich L, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. MedsCheck at Home services in Ontario: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Poster presentation, presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  12. He N, Dolovich L, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Pharmaceutical Opinion services in Ontario: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Poster presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  13. Loi A, He N, Shakeri A, Dolovich L, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. MedsCheck Long-Term Care in Ontario: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Poster presentation, presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  14. Shakeri A, Dolovich L, MacCallum L, Gamble JM, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Impact of the October 2016 policy change on the delivery of MedsCheck Annual and MedsCheck Diabetes services in Ontario community pharmacies: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Poster presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
     
  15. Wong L, Sproule BA, Guilcher SJ, Zhou L, Cadarette SM. Pharmacy smoking cessation services in Ontario: The OPEN Atlas [abstract]. Poster presentation, presentation, Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) Summit, March 2019, Toronto, Ontario.
Other Publications
  1. Shakeri A. Impact of policy changes on utilization of community medication review services in Ontario among patients living with diabetes. [MSc thesis]. Toronto (ON, Canada): University of Toronto; 2020. (Supervisor: Suzanne M. Cadarette)