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Age to stop?

Appropriate screening in older patients

Roland Grad, Guylène Thériault, Harminder Singh, James A. Dickinson, Olga Szafran and Neil R. Bell
Canadian Family Physician August 2019; 65 (8) 543-548;
Roland Grad
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que.
MD CM MSc CCFP FCFP
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Guylène Thériault
Associate Vice Dean of Distributed Medical Education and Academic Lead for the Physicianship Component at Outaouais Medical Campus in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.
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Harminder Singh
Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and in the Department of Hematology and Oncology of CancerCare Manitoba.
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James A. Dickinson
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
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Olga Szafran
Associate Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
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Neil R. Bell
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vol. 65 no. 8 543-548
PubMed 
31413022

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The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Print ISSN 
0008-350X
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1715-5258
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  • Published online August 14, 2019.

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  1. Roland Grad, MD CM MSc CCFP FCFP⇑
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que.
  1. Correspondence: Dr Roland Grad; e-mail roland.grad{at}mcgill.ca
  1. Guylène Thériault, MD CCFP
  1. Associate Vice Dean of Distributed Medical Education and Academic Lead for the Physicianship Component at Outaouais Medical Campus in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.
  1. Harminder Singh, MD MPH FRCPC
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and in the Department of Hematology and Oncology of CancerCare Manitoba.
  1. James A. Dickinson, MB BS PhD CCFP FRACGP
  1. Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
  1. Olga Szafran, MHSA
  1. Associate Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
  1. Neil R. Bell, MD SM CCFP FCFP
  1. Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.

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