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March 4, 2025 Pause in work of Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care jeopardizes many clinical practice guidelines The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (Task Force) has been instructed by federal Health Minister Minster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Task Force invites you to participate in our 2024 annual evaluation! Our evaluation seeks to measure the impact and uptake of our guidelines and tools and identify new opportunities for the Task Force. We ...

Breast cancer update We are working to update the draft breast cancer screening guideline now that the public comment period is closed. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on the draft. We will summarize responses ...

Last call for feedback on the breast cancer draft guidelines The deadline for providing feedback to our breast cancer draft guidelines is fast approaching. Please submit your feedback by August 30th here. We want to thank everyone ...

In the news We understand that the draft breast cancer screening guideline may be surprising to some. Sometimes the scientific process reveals facts that contradict mainstream thinking, and we know this may be one of those ...

Watch Dr. Thériault’s webinar Task Force Chair and family physician, Dr. Guylène Thériault hosted a webinar on the draft breast cancer screening recommendations to inform stakeholders about the guideline. Missed it? Watch a webinar which describes how ...

Your comments wanted on the new draft guideline Breast cancer is a disease that touches many Canadians, and we all want to find ways to reduce the burden of this illness. This spring, the Canadian Task Force ...