Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Current
    • Published Ahead of Print
    • Archive
    • Supplemental Issues
    • Collections - French
    • Collections - English
  • Info for
    • Authors & Reviewers
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Advertisers
    • Careers & Locums
    • Subscribers
    • Permissions
  • About CFP
    • About CFP
    • About the CFPC
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
  • Feedback
    • Feedback
    • Rapid Responses
    • Most Read
    • Most Cited
    • Email Alerts
  • Blogs
    • Latest Blogs
    • Blog Guidelines
    • Directives pour les blogues
  • Mainpro+ Credits
    • About Mainpro+
    • Member Login
    • Instructions
  • Other Publications
    • http://www.cfpc.ca/Canadianfamilyphysician/
    • https://www.cfpc.ca/Login/
    • Careers and Locums

User menu

  • My alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
  • Other Publications
    • http://www.cfpc.ca/Canadianfamilyphysician/
    • https://www.cfpc.ca/Login/
    • Careers and Locums
  • My alerts
The College of Family Physicians of Canada

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Current
    • Published Ahead of Print
    • Archive
    • Supplemental Issues
    • Collections - French
    • Collections - English
  • Info for
    • Authors & Reviewers
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Advertisers
    • Careers & Locums
    • Subscribers
    • Permissions
  • About CFP
    • About CFP
    • About the CFPC
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
  • Feedback
    • Feedback
    • Rapid Responses
    • Most Read
    • Most Cited
    • Email Alerts
  • Blogs
    • Latest Blogs
    • Blog Guidelines
    • Directives pour les blogues
  • Mainpro+ Credits
    • About Mainpro+
    • Member Login
    • Instructions
  • RSS feeds
  • Follow cfp Template on Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
OtherPractice | Prevention in Practice

Better decision making in preventive health screening

Balancing benefits and harms

Neil R. Bell, Roland Grad, James A. Dickinson, Harminder Singh, Ainsley Elizabeth Moore, Danielle Kasperavicius and Kaylyn L. Kretschmer
Canadian Family Physician July 2017; 63 (7) 521-524;
Neil R. Bell
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
MD SM CCFP FCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Roland Grad
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que.
MD CM MSc CCFP FCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
James A. Dickinson
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
MB BS CCFP PhD FRACGP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Harminder Singh
Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and in the Department of Hematology and Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba.
MD MPH FRCPC
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Ainsley Elizabeth Moore
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
MD MSc CCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Danielle Kasperavicius
Research coordinator for the Knowledge Translation program at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont.
MPH
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: kasperavicid@smh.ca
Kaylyn L. Kretschmer
Business Partner, Stakeholder Engagement at the BC Safety Authority in New Westminster, BC.
MSc
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Article Information

vol. 63 no. 7 521-524
PubMed 
28701439

Published By 
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Print ISSN 
0008-350X
Online ISSN 
1715-5258
History 
  • Published online July 12, 2017.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright© the College of Family Physicians of Canada

Author Information

  1. Neil R. Bell, MD SM CCFP FCFP
  1. Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
  1. Roland Grad, MD CM MSc CCFP FCFP
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que.
  1. James A. Dickinson, MB BS CCFP PhD FRACGP
  1. Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
  1. Harminder Singh, MD MPH FRCPC
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and in the Department of Hematology and Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba.
  1. Ainsley Elizabeth Moore, MD MSc CCFP
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
  1. Danielle Kasperavicius, MPH⇑
  1. Research coordinator for the Knowledge Translation program at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont.
  1. Correspondence: Danielle Kasperavicius; e-mail kasperavicid{at}smh.ca
  1. Kaylyn L. Kretschmer, MSc
  1. Business Partner, Stakeholder Engagement at the BC Safety Authority in New Westminster, BC.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Canadian Family Physician: 63 (7)
Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 63, Issue 7
1 Jul 2017
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Cover
  • Index by author
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on The College of Family Physicians of Canada.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Better decision making in preventive health screening
(Your Name) has sent you a message from The College of Family Physicians of Canada
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the The College of Family Physicians of Canada web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Citation Tools
Better decision making in preventive health screening
Neil R. Bell, Roland Grad, James A. Dickinson, Harminder Singh, Ainsley Elizabeth Moore, Danielle Kasperavicius, Kaylyn L. Kretschmer
Canadian Family Physician Jul 2017, 63 (7) 521-524;

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Respond to this article
Share
Better decision making in preventive health screening
Neil R. Bell, Roland Grad, James A. Dickinson, Harminder Singh, Ainsley Elizabeth Moore, Danielle Kasperavicius, Kaylyn L. Kretschmer
Canadian Family Physician Jul 2017, 63 (7) 521-524;
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Factors to consider
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • Holding a wolf by the ears
  • Implementing preventive health care recommendations in family medicine
  • Prendre de meilleures décisions en matière de dépistage préventif
  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Response
  • What should educators teach to improve preventive health care?
  • Que devraient enseigner les educateurs pour ameliorer les soins de sante preventifs?
  • A lencontre du statu quo en matiere de depistage: Appel a laction pour ameliorer lenseignement des soins de sante preventifs
  • Going against the status quo in screening: Call to action to improve teaching in preventive health care
  • Physician Perspectives on Mammography Screening for Average-Risk Women: "Like a Double-Edged Sword"
  • Measuring what really matters: Screening in primary care
  • Mesurer ce qui importe vraiment: Le depistage en premiere ligne
  • Practice organization for preventive screening
  • Organisation de la pratique pour le depistage preventif
  • Depistage : quand les choses tournent mal
  • Screening: when things go wrong
  • Clarifier les valeurs et preferences des patients pour eclairer la prise de decision partagee sur le depistage preventif
  • Eliciting patient values and preferences to inform shared decision making in preventive screening
  • Response
  • Using disease-specific mortality in discussions with patients
  • Holding a wolf by the ears: Preventive care and the family physician
  • Mise en {oelig}uvre des recommandations sur les soins de sante preventifs en medecine familiale: Presentation dune serie par le Groupe detude canadien sur les soins de sante preventifs
  • Implementing preventive health care recommendations in family medicine: Introducing a series from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
  • Google Scholar

Similar Articles

Navigate

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
  • Collections - English
  • Collections - Française

For Authors

  • Authors and Reviewers
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Permissions
  • Terms of Use

General Information

  • About CFP
  • About the CFPC
  • Advertisers
  • Careers & Locums
  • Editorial Advisory Board
  • Subscribers

Journal Services

  • Email Alerts
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feeds

Copyright © 2025 by The College of Family Physicians of Canada

Powered by HighWire