Ontario Investigation Tools
Consistent with O. Reg. 671/92 of the French Language Services Act, the tools on this page are only available in English because it is scientific or technical in nature and is for use only by qualified public health professionals and not by members of the public.
Provincially standardized questionnaires have been developed in order to standardize information collected by public health investigators from cases of reportable disease in Ontario. The questionnaires are branded as the Ontario Investigation Tools (OITs).
Ontario Investigation Tools assist with:
- identifying the source of the illness
- identifying behavioural and social risk factors and exposures
- case and contact management
- case counselling
- outbreak management
- obtaining required data under the Health Protection and Promotion Act pertaining to the case
- facilitating documenting each case investigation
Download tools:
- Anaplasmosis Investigation Tool
- Avian Influenza Aggregate Reporting Tool
- Avian Influenza Investigation Tool
- Amebiasis Investigation Tool
- Babesiosis Investigation Tool
- Botulism Infant Investigation Tool
- Botulism Investigation Tool
- Brucellosis Investigation Tool
- Candida auris Investigation Tool
- Campylobacter Investigation Tool
- Cholera Investigation Tool
- Congenital Syphilis Investigation Tool
- Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) Investigation Tool
- Cryptosporidiosis Investigation Tool
- Cyclosporiasis Investigation Tool
- Echinococcus multilocularis Infection Investigation Tool
- Food Poisoning Investigation Tool
- Giardiasis Investigation Tool
- Hantavirus Investigation Tool
- Hepatitis A Investigation Tool
- Hepatitis C case Investigation Tool
- Investigation Tool Edits
- iPHIS Case Exposure Form
- iPHIS Exposure Reference Chart
- iPHIS Quick Reference - Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, and Powassan Virus Data Entry
- Legionellosis Investigation Tool
- Listeria Case Management Tool
- Listeria iPHIS Mapping Tool Questionnaire
- Listeria PHAC Questionnaire
- Lyme Disease Investigation Tool
- Mpox (formerly monkeypox) Investigation Tool
- Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Investigation Tool
- Paratyphoid Fever Investigation Tool
- Plague Investigation Tool
- Powassan Virus Investigation Tool
- Psittacosis/Ornithosis Investigation Tool
- Q Fever Investigation Tool
- Reportable Enteric Pathogens Companion Guide
- Salmonella Appendix 2 - Source attribution of the common Salmonella serovars
- Salmonellosis Investigation Tool
- Shigellosis Investigation Tool
- Trichinosis Investigation Tool
- Tularemia Investigation Tool
- Typhoid Fever Investigation Tool
- VTEC Investigation Tool
- Yersiniosis Investigation Tool
Updated
8 Jan 2025
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