Best Evidence.
Best Practice.
Best Care.

For over 20 years, the Centre for Effective Practice has been building a stronger health system and a healthier future for all Canadians.

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Our Services

CEP helps clinicians and healthcare partners simplify clinical challenges. Our trusted, evidence-based tools enhance decision-making and improve patient outcomes.

Clinical tool development

Evidence-based clinical tools that simplify decision-making for primary care.

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Practice management supports

Operational frameworks that strengthen everyday clinical practice.

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Health system transformation

Cross-system collaboration to deliver care that improves outcomes.

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Evidence services

Synthesis, appraisal and translation of clinical evidence at scale.

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2025 Impact at a Glance

2024-2025 CEP Impact Report

$9M

in cost savings through our Academic Detailing Service

10M+

patients helped each year through our clinical tools

$1M

in avoidable costs prevented annually with CORE Low Back Pain

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What People Say About CEP

CEP’s ability to develop the trusted, comprehensive tools and resources clinicians need most makes them invaluable partners in primary care. Their materials are simple to use and tailored to primary care providers’ needs, making them easy to integrate into daily practice. CEP’s work helps to strengthen our whole primary care system.

Dr. Daniel Warshafsky, Ontario’s Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health

Working with the CEP team was an enriching, collegial, and educational experience! The team is knowledgeable, supportive, and passionate about the tools that they create. When working on the endometriosis tool, each member of the team worked diligently to ask questions and seek answers, integrate information, and create a high-quality tool that would empower both physicians and patients in navigating all-things endometriosis. It was a pleasure to work with the CEP team, who are truly a group of highly talented individuals that are dedicated towards improving the lives of patients and providers!

Dr. Marina Malek, Family Physician and Clinical Lead for Endometriosis

I find the CEP Academic Detailing process to be a wonderful opportunity to have my individual, specific questions answered by a knowledgeable and credible source, with amazing tools for practice based on the best evidence available.

Dr. Sid Feldman, Family Physician