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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 FCFPGuylène 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.
MD CCFPHarminder 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.
MD MPH FRCPCJames 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 PhD CCFP FRACGPOlga Szafran
Associate Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
MHSANeil R. Bell
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.
MD SM CCFP FCFP
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Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 65, Issue 8
1 Aug 2019
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Age to stop?
Roland Grad, Guylène Thériault, Harminder Singh, James A. Dickinson, Olga Szafran, Neil R. Bell
Canadian Family Physician Aug 2019, 65 (8) 543-548;
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