Resources for Healthcare Providers

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Care Pathways

Crohn’s and Colitis Canada offers healthcare providers in Canada evidence-informed strategies aimed at improving quality of care and health outcomes for people with IBD. Clinical care pathways are useful tools for healthcare practitioners to provide evidence-based and standardized care, treatment and management of IBD.

Based on the most current evidence available, best practices and expert opinions, the IBD clinical care pathways provide a structured, standardized evidence-based multidisciplinary management algorithms, identifying an appropriate sequence of clinical interventions and timeframes for people living with IBD.

The IBD clinical care pathways are supported by systematic reviews of published evidence, and are comprised of protocols, algorithms and checklists to help harmonize clinical and administrative aspects and ensure continuity of IBD care in outpatient settings.

Promoting Access and Care through Centres of Excellence (PACE) Network

Through the PACE Network, the development of clinical care pathways was initially led by Dr. Richard Fedorak (University of Alberta) and has continued under the leadership of Dr. Karen Kroeker (University of Alberta), Dr. Remo Panaccione (University of Calgary) and Dr. Cynthia Seow (University of Calgary). 

For more information about the development of the IBD Clinical Care Pathways, or if your IBD Centre is interested in helping to standardize IBD care in Canada, please visit the Standardized Care page of PACE.
 

• Therapy decision tree - Crohn’s disease
• Therapy decision tree - Ulcerative colitis
• Initiation and Tapering of Corticosteroids
• Initiation of Immunomodulators (Thiopurines and Methotrexate)
• Introduction of Advanced Therapy
• Maintenance of Advanced Therapy
• Loss of response
• Suspected IBD outpatient flare
• Health Maintenance
• Management of Perianal Penetrating Crohn’s Disease
• Post-operative management ofCrohn's disease
• Colon Dysplasia/Cancer Surveillance
• Vitamin D Replacement
• Iron Deficiency
• Vaccinations and IBD
• IBD and Preconception/Pregnancy
• Transitions from pediatric to adult IBD care

National IBD Clinical Care Pathways Working Group

Visit our National IBD Clinical Care Pathways Working group page to read about the multidisciplinary experts who contributed to making these clinical care pathways possible.