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The CTFPHC is excited to introduce the first Patient Perspective to accompany its Prevention in Practice series.  This Patient Perspective is written by Cathy Telfer, a retired educator who lives and volunteers in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Cathy is also ...

  The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) is composed of experts who develop recommendations for clinical preventive  services delivered by Canadian primary care practitioners. The CTFPHC is responsible for prioritizing the topics that will ...

The CTFPHC invites you to participate in our 2017 annual evaluation! Our evaluation seeks to measure the impact and uptake of our guidelines and tools and identify new opportunities for the CTFPHC. We would love ...

The CTFPHC has released its next article within the Canadian Family Physician Prevention in Practice Series. The new article is on Knowledge Translation Tools in Preventive Health Care and is co-authored by Sharon Straus, Tier ...

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care affirms earlier findings that routine annual checkups do not offer sufficient health benefits to justify the expense or effort  Montreal, November 14, 2017 – As far back as ...

The CTFPHC is committed to providing mentored training opportunities to Canadian healthcare trainees and early career professionals. Opportunities for Task Force Interns include short-term training opportunities and longer-term internships. Both short-term and longer-term internships involve ...

The CTFPHC is pleased to offer the accredited e-learning CME module “Screening for Cervical Cancer with the 2013 Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) Guidelines.” This e-learning CME module represents a unique learning opportunity ...

  The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) is composed of experts who develop recommendations for clinical preventive services delivered by Canadian primary care practitioners. The CTFPHC is responsible for prioritizing the topics that will be reviewed and works with the ...

The CTFPHC has released its next article within the Canadian Family Physician Article Series. The new article is on Shared Decision Making and is co-authored by France Légaré, Tier 1 Chairholder of the Canada Research ...

Guideline recommends screening with ultrasound for men aged 65-80 but not for men over 80 years of age or women    OTTAWA, ON, September 11, 2017 –The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care’s (CTFPHC) new ...