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Patients key to guidelines 

What role do patients and the public play in guideline development? Patient engagement is essential and part of Task Force guidelines since 2010. In recent years, the Task Force has expanded engagement opportunities for members ...

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Northern medicine

Dr. Guylène Thériault in Whapmagoostui in northern Quebec. Remote medicine is one of Dr. Guylène Thériault’s interests. A family physician, educator and volunteer, she started her career practicing family medicine in northern Quebec and now decades later, has ...

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Evidence, emergency medicine and competitive swimming 

Dr. Eddy Lang Task Force members, many of whom are practicing physicians and nurse practitioners, still find time in their busy lives to volunteer to help create clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Eddy Lang, an emergency physician ...

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CTFPHC article on Understanding and Communicating Risk: Measures of Outcomes and the Magnitude of Benefits and Harms

The CTFPHC has released its next article in the Canadian Family Physician Prevention in Practice series. This article outlines measures of outcome and magnitude/effect size that would be fundamental to evidence-based decision making by physicians ...

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Canadian Task Force Releases Prevention and Treatment Recommendations on Cigarette Smoking in Children and Youth

Battle against cigarette smoking is encouraging but more research is needed on most effective interventions for use in primary care OTTAWA, ON, February 27, 2017 – Today the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) ...

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