Anxiety Disorders and Depression in Adults

Canadians are reporting increased moderate to severe anxiety and feelings of depression since the start of the pandemic. With more people seeking help for their mental health needs, clinicians need easy access to point-of-care tools that reflect the most up-to-date and relevant evidence.

Benefits for Participating Hospitals

• Embeds quality standards into hospital health information systems (HIS) to support how clinicians work with the patient population at individual hospitals.
• Supports hospitals to launch PHQ-9 and GAD-7 digital assessment tools to help clinicians access and complete timely patient information, improve care coordination, and promote their patients’ quality of life.
• Enhances hospital information given to patients and primary care clinicians with improved discharge summaries that help patients transition out of hospital.
• Offers hospital sites project management support, leadership through clinical informatics and funding to support this work.

“In spite of the growing evidence that measurement-based care (MBC) enhances treatment outcomes it remains underutilized across hospital and community mental health programs. E2P, a fundamental Program to attain this goal, is one of many initiatives that I am proud to be a part of.”

Dr. David Koczerginski, MD, FRCPC
Chief of Psychiatry and Medical Program Director of Mental Health, North York General Hospital

Hospital Implementation Partners

North Bay Regional Health Centre, St. Joseph’s Hamilton Healthcare, Cornwall Community Hospital, Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital, Windsor Regional Hospital, Ontario Shores Hospital, Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, North York General Hospital, and The Ottawa Hospital.

Implementation and Change Management Toolkits

Development Process

Tools and supports for anxiety disorders and depression in adults were co-developed with primary and acute care clinicians, persons with lived experiences, experts and key system stakeholders.

Topic Expert Group

A warm thank you to the Topic Expert Group who supported the development of these E2P tools and supports:

• Katie Anderson, MD, FRCPC
• Sharon Bal, MD CCFP FCFP
• Kim Corace, Ph.D., C.Psych
• Christina Gilman, Lived Experience Advisor
• David Kocerzingski, MD FRCPC
• Randi E. McCabe, Ph.D., C.Psych
• Upender Mehan, MD, CCFP, FCFP
• Dielle Miranda, MA (Clin Psy), MHSc
• Paul Preston, MD CCFP CCPE CHE
• Cindy Pritchard, RN(EC), BScN, NP-PHC
• Rachel Shour, BSc. MD. CCFP
• Olivia Soulliere, Lived Experience Advisor

With support from:

• Ilan Shahin MD-CM, MBA, CCFP