Systematic Reviews and Protocols

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In 2018, the Task Force launched a thematic series called Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Evidence Reviews Collection within the journal Systematic Reviews. Going forward, the series will include all systematic review protocols and systematic evidence reviews conducted to support the development of Task Force guidelines. These evidence reviews cite and appraise available literature, provide a summary of findings based on the GRADE methodology and offer informative evaluations on the benefits and harms of screening for a given health topic.

Click the links below to visit each publication in the series:

Breast Cancer (update) – Draft Recommendations 

(Click here to visit the guideline webpage)

Prostate Cancer (update)

(Click here to visit the guideline webpage for Prostate Cancer -update)

Potentially inappropriate prescriptions and over-the-counter medication use

(Click here to visit the guideline webpage for potentially inappropriate prescriptions and over-the-counter medication use)

Falls Prevention

(Click here to visit the guideline webpage for Falls Prevention)

Depression in Children and Adolescents

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Depression in Children and Adolescents)

Tobacco Smoking in Adults

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Tobacco Smoking in Adults)

 

Depression in Pregnancy and Postpartum and in the General Adult Population

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Adult Depression update)

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression)

 

Chlamydia and Gonorrhea

(Click here to visit the guideline webpage for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea)

Fragility Fractures

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Fragility Fractures)

Asymptomatic Thyroid Dysfunction

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Asymptomatic Thyroid Dysfunction)

Esophageal Cancer

(Click here to visit the Task Force guideline webpage for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma)

Cervical Cancer

(Click here to visit the guideline webpage for Cervical Cancer)

Note that, in addition to the articles published above, the evidence review protocols and systematic evidence reviews for individual guidelines developed prior to the launch of the Collection can be accessed via individual topic pages under published guidelines section of the Task Force website.