Prevention in Practice Series

Since 2017, the Task Force has been contributing to an ongoing series of articles called Prevention in Practice and published in Canadian Family Physician. The series aims to provide primary care practitioners with concrete advice on how to implement preventive health evidence into their work and how to engage in shared, informed decision making with patients.

The article series covers topics including shared decision making, communicating the balance between benefits and harms, eliciting patient values and preferences, and using knowledge translation tools.

Click the links below to visit each article:

• Implementing preventive health care recommendations in family medicine: Introducing a series from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (Vol. 63, Issue 7; 1 Jul 2017)
• Better decision making in preventive health screening: Balancing benefits and harms (Vol. 63, Issue 7; 1 Jul 2017)
• Shared decision making in preventive health care: What it is; what it is not (Vol. 63, Issue 9; 1 Sep 2017)
• Knowledge translation tools in preventive health care (Vol. 63, Issue 11; 1 Nov 2017)
• Eliciting patient values and preferences to inform shared decision making in preventive screening (Vol. 64, Issue 1; 1 Jan 2018)
• Patient perspectives: Exploring patient values and preferences (Vol. 64, Issue 1; 1 Jan 2018)
• Understanding and communicating risk: Measures of outcome and the magnitude of benefits and harms (Vol 64, Issue 3; Mar 2018)
• Choosing guidelines to use in your practice (Vol. 64, Issue 5; 1 May 2018)
• Screening: when things go wrong (Vol. 64, Issue 7; 1 Jul 2018)
• Overdiagnosis: causes and consequences in primary health care (Vol. 64, Issue 9; 1 Sep 2018)
• Practice organization for preventive screening (Vol. 64, Issue 11; 1 Nov 2018)
• Quality of the screening process (Vol. 65, Issue 5; 1 May 2019)
• Appropriate screening in older patients (Vol.  65, Issue 8; 1 Aug 2019)
• Measuring what really matters (Vol. 65, Issue 11; 1 Nov 2019)
• To share or not to share (Vol. 66, Issue 5; 1 May 2020)
• Rethinking screening during and after COVID-19 (Vol. 66, Issue 8; 1 Aug 2020)
• Preventive health care and the media (Vol. 66, Issue 11; 1 Nov 2020)
• Too soon or too late? (Vol. 67, Issue 2; 1 Feb 2021)
• Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services  (Vol. 63, Issue 11; 1 Nov 2017)