Working with patient and family partners, clinicians, researchers and decision-makers from early psychosis programs across Canada, we have been laying the foundation for a learning health system for early intervention services across Canada. To do so, we have carried out a Delphi to identify values, objectives, outcome domains and indicators for a learning health system with French- and English-speaking participants across all stakeholder groups from various parts of Canada; a scoping review of patient-, family- and clinician-reported measures in early psychosis; and a systematic review of guidelines and policy documents; and a critical appraisal of guidelines for early intervention for psychosis. We are also holding multiple meetings and discussions to engage patients, families, clinicians, researchers, programs and other stakeholders across Canada, including a CIHR-funded Consensus Development Conference to develop guidelines and standards for a learning health system for early psychosis in November 2023. In 2026, we obtained a grant to further advance efforts towards a pan-Canadian learning health system for early psychosis (governance, network, components, data infrastructure), led by Dr. Ferrari with support from Drs. Iyer, Abdel-Baki, Kozloff, Tibbo and Foussias.
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