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Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services

From the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

Richard Birtwhistle, Neil R. Bell, Brett D. Thombs, Roland Grad and James A. Dickinson
Canadian Family Physician November 2017; 63 (11) 824-826;

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vol. 63 no. 11 824-826
PubMed 
29138150
Published By 
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Print ISSN 
0008-350X
Online ISSN 
1715-5258
History 
  • Published online November 14, 2017.
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  1. Richard Birtwhistle, MD MSc FCFP⇑
  1. Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont, and was Vice Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC).
  1. Correspondence: Dr Richard Birtwhistle; e-mail birtwhis{at}queensu.ca
  1. Neil R. Bell, MD SM MSc FCFP
  1. Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and was a member of the CTFPHC.
  1. Brett D. Thombs, PhD
  1. Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que, and Chair of the CTFPHC.
  1. Roland Grad, MD CM MSc CCFP FCFP
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University, Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute in Montreal and a member of the CTFPHC.
  1. James A. Dickinson, MB BS PhD CCFP FRACGP
  1. Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta and was a member of the CTFPHC.
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Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services
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Canadian Family Physician Nov 2017, 63 (11) 824-826;
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